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Position:Home>Poetry> Is anyone here a fan of Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson? What is your favorite pQuestion: Is anyone here a fan of Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson!? What is your favorite poem(s)!? And why!? Have any of Plath's or Dickinson's poems been cathartic or helped you get through a difficult time (like depression or loneliness)!. I am interested in the therapeutic and healing effects of poetry- but especially focused on the confessional or transcendental poets!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I love Dickinson's poems!. I remember my mom bought me a nursery rhymes book and it had her poem, "Will there every be a morning" in it!. I memorized it word for word, thinking that it was a "happy" poem!. Now that I'm older, I can see the slight gloom in it!. But it does make me feel better to read it!. It's like you're not the only one experiencing these existential feelings and knowing that you are not alone in that does have its therapeutic effects!. I also love "Because I could not stop for Death," or something along those lines!. Or the one about the loaded gun!. It totally caputures your feelings on death and for me personally they are a comfort!. Sylvia Plath is also a pleasure to read!. I think the poem is Mad Love Song or something!. It just totally captures the mood!. Again, it's like someone knows exactly what you're feeling and it takes away the loneliness!. You're totally engaged with their poetry!. It's like you're talking to them without having to bare your secrets to the world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i love Sylvia Plath i have read several times her book 'the bell jar' my favourite poem would have to be "arial" which was her last poem, i can imagine what she was going through those days!.!.!. she create arial two days before her death!.!.!. i believe this poem its depressing and represents lots of my moods in certain ways!. in this poem i can see things bothered and she saw no futher in life!.!.!. sick of cleaning nappies!.!.!. daily life routine, that she was thinking to commit suicide for days maybe even years!.!.!. Ariel Stasis in darkness!. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances!. God's lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees!--The furrow Splits and passes, sister to The brown arc Of the neck I cannot catch, ******-eye Berries cast dark Hooks---- Black sweet blood mouthfuls, Shadows!. Something else Hauls me through air---- Thighs, hair; Flakes from my heels!. White Godiva, I unpeel---- Dead hands, dead stringencies!. And now I Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas!. The child's cry Melts in the wall!. And I Am the arrow, The dew that flies, Suicidal, at one with the drive Into the red Eye, the cauldron of morning!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Plath recorded some of her poetry!. Amazing readings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, I like both Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson, but I can't relate to having poems get me through a difficult time!. Although, my favorite and probably most well known poem by Sylvia Plath is : Mirror I am silver and exact!. I have no preconceptions!. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately!. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike I am not cruel, only truthful – The eye of a little god, four-cornered!. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall!. It is pink, with speckles!. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart!. But it flickers!. Faces and darkness separate us over and over!. Now I am a lake!. A woman bends over me!. Searching my reaches for what she really is!. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon!. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands!. I am important to her!. She comes and goes!. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness!. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish!. Then, a poem by Emily Dickinson that I like is :The Brain is : Wider than the Sky -- by Emily Dickinson The Brain -- is wider than the Sky -- For -- put them side by side -- The one the other will contain With ease -- and You -- beside -- The Brain is deeper than the sea -- For -- hold them -- Blue to Blue -- The one the other will absorb -- As Sponges -- Buckets -- do -- The Brain is just the weight of God -- For -- Heft them -- Pound for Pound -- And they will differ -- if they do -- As Syllable from Sound -- But there are so many poems Emily Dickinson wrote that I like! LOL! She probably wrote more The Brain -- is wider than the Sky -- by Emily Dickinson The Brain -- is wider than the Sky -- For -- put them side by side -- The one the other will contain With ease -- and You -- beside -- The Brain is deeper than the sea -- For -- hold them -- Blue to Blue -- The one the other will absorb -- As Sponges -- Buckets -- do -- The Brain is just the weight of God -- For -- Heft them -- Pound for Pound -- And they will differ -- if they do -- As Syllable from Sound -- But I like so many poems by Emily DIckinson! She probably wrote as many poems as there are as many people living in a city! LOL! :)Www@QuestionHome@Com |