Literally the most overrated female poet of all time.
Why don't they make kids learn actual good female poets like Boland?
She's pretty damn good. Lady Lazarus and Death & Co. are amazing. You can't argue someone is overrated when he produces a poem like:
Two, of course there are two.
It seems perfectly natural now ---
The one who never looks up, whose eyes are lidded
And balled? like Blake's.
Who exhibits
The birthmarks that are his trademark ---
The scald scar of water,
The nude
Verdigris of the condor.
I am red meat. His beak
Claps sidewise: I am not his yet.
He tells me how badly I photograph.
He tells me how sweet
The babies look in their hospital
Icebox, a simple
Frill at the neck
Then the flutings of their Ionian
Death-gowns.
Then two little feet.
He does not smile or smoke.
The other does that
His hair long and plausive
Bastard
Masturbating a glitter
He wants to be loved.
I do not stir.
The frost makes a flower,
The dew makes a star,
The dead bell,
The dead bell.
Somebody's done for.
>>9069537
garbage
>>9069532
>Boland
Fuck her and fuck the department of education for putting her on the leaving cert
>>9069537
>I am red meat.
that's some *raw* talent right there
>>9069532
Self-pity: the poet
>>9069586
false
Go back to your home, Sylvia!
Bell Jar is good tho
>>9069537
>Lady Lazarus
>amazing
Pick one
>>9069631
This.
>most overrated female poet of all time
Carol Ann Duffy says hi.
>>9069532
She's not bad. She's a more solipsistic, kitschy version of Roethke.
>>9069629
is that a) an actual postmortem picture, and b) sylvia's actual postmortem pic?
the human form collapsed in an oven cuts a far more brutal figure than I would have imagined
Everyone on this board is borderline retarded.
I get it, you're trying to not be so retarded after a life wasted on the internet...
>>9071823
this. We need more information.
>>9069532
Awesomely reasoned post there, OP.
>>9071823
Not the one who posted it, but as far as I know, it's real.
Also, I'm not crazy about her poetry, so o won't really defend it. I prefer more structured poems. That said, I did enjoy the Bell Jar and found the writing to be really simple and nice with lots interesting and fresh metaphors and similes.
I hated Plath when I was a teenage boy, I think it's a teenage boy sort of thing. The self-pity can be grating but she produced some really sound work. Insomnia is a masterpiece. First time I've heard Eavan Boland mentioned on /lit:
And if the provenance of memory is
only that—remember, not atone—
and if I can be safe in
the weak spring light in that kitchen, then
why is there another kitchen, spring light
always darkening in it and
a woman whispering to a man
over and over what else could we have done?
>>9073574
> And if the provenance of memory is only that (remember, not atone), and if I can be safe in
the weak spring light in that kitchen, then why is there another kitchen, spring light always darkening in it and a woman whispering to a man over and over: "What else could we have done?"
Professional secret: if you reformat poetry with sane person punctuation and it suddenly stops being poetry then it wasn't poetry in the first place.
Try this one neat trick, English professors hate it!
>>9069631
agreed
They make kids learn about emily dickinson dont they.
She's p good
>>9069532
You're doing your leaving cert aren't you OP
>>9069590
This lol I just did my paper 2 mock today :^)
>>9069532
FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>9069538
You know using the term 'redpilled' makes you sound like a fucking cretin.
>>9069631
It's fucking terrible
>>9077621
>anti-/pol/ crusade
It's just a meme-spouting dipshit from /pol/, no one even bothers with these straw men anymore.
Lol all of these normies in here triggered because they are after the /pol/ boogeyman.