Hi everyone, and thanks Elisha and Rosa for your posts - I'll wait for your classmates to respond to you!
There is another link I've added to the list, this one is the link to Virtual Lit and specifically the section on "To His Coy Mistress". It's interesting to read these ideas and analysis, but don't think of them as the definitive "answer" to a poem. Sometimes they serve to limit the scope of, and one's reading of, a poem, so read them with an open mind. Read and consider them for how they can expand and compliment your understanding of the poem. Having said that, the detail here is wonderful.
Bon weekend, enjoy the sunshine.
Right! Everyone I'm on board!
ReplyDeleteHave been enjoying the sunshine, isn’t it amazing how we can go from one extreme too another between two weekends!
Found the poem session on Friday quite thought provoking, it is interesting to note how men perceive and converse about women so differently.
I am looking forward to the critical analysis this week and will be keeping my eyes peeled for something new to report on our blog, but until then I am enjoying reading everyone else’s.
See you tomorrow class,
J.R
The sunshine has been glorious, hasn't it? We'll certainly have some double periods dedicated to poetry in term 2. I think these single lessons have been working well as an introduction, and hopefully are helping to allay any fears some of the class may have about poetry. So often people fear poetry as being high brow or inaccessible, when it is really just a way of using language to convey meaning - in a most economical, or lyrical, or powerful way. JC
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ReplyDeleteJust doing some little research on the Bell Jar and came across some little treat that sounds weird. It is a song sung by Ryan Adams about Sylvia Plath.
All you do is go on to Youtube.com and type in Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath
I have finally found that enlish blog site about The Bell Jar! I should warn you, it goes into the book A LOT!
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http://www.english-blog.com/archives/2007/04/impressions_from_sylvia_plaths_the_bell_jar.php
Enjoy :)
Hello everyone, it’s Zoe :), just posting a comment so you all know I have finally remembered to post something on our lit blog!
ReplyDeleteI haven’t got too much to say; although in response to Sarah’s comment, I did YouTube the song, and found it really nice. However, I had no idea what he was really on about, so I had to Google the lyrics. I found them weird, but in my opinion, it did have references to her book: with the sleeping pills, her love of baths, and her attempts at drowning out at sea. Anyway,of to do some more homework! See you all in class on Friday. X
Hi everyone...
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to say thanks to Sarah,
I read that blog you suggested, although they were quite long, I did read two or three of the entries and I found them beneficial. :)
Also, I have a quick observation for all who are willing to listen...
In The Bell Jar, Buddy asks Esther if there is something in him that "drives women crazy".
Keep that in mind...
As we all know, Ted Hughes was married to Sylvia Plath, & while they were married Hughes had a mistress, Assia Wevill. And, we also know, Sylvia Plath committed suicide in 1963, and in 1969, Hughes' mistress Assia Wevill also killed herself and their 4 year old daughter Shura...
At this time, Plath didn’t know that either Wevill or herself were going to commit suicide...
This is completely tragic, yes, but isn't it freakishly uncanny that Esther and Joan, Buddy's two girlfriends, could almost be interchangeable with Hughes real life lovers...
Maybe there's something in Ted Hughes that "drives women crazy".
If you want to have look, here is the article, just for your personal perusal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/19/biography.tedhughes
See you all tomorrow for our POETRY lesson
elisha
xx
A very pro-Plath, anti-Hughes observation, Elisha, and certainly one that the anti-Hughes, feminist crew were peddling in the decades after the womens' death. An opposing view may be that Hughes is a patriarch who is attracted to vulnerable, at-risk, mentally unstable women, and genuinely offers them support and stability. We have all read reports of loving supportive men and women (and parents) who are puzzled and dismayed at their husband's/ wives/ child's suicide.
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Have just read that Guardian book review Elisha. What a fraught relationship Hughes and Wevill had! Thanks for posting the link. JC
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ReplyDeletei was thinking the other day when i was talking to my aunt who is a teacher. and do any of you think Ted liked people who weren't all there because they where vulnerable and easy. like Sylvia and his mistress (i forgot her name).
makes sense in a way..
and here is an interview with Sylvia..
she talks about her poetry. she is a very proud American, even if she is living in England at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6RRWf8woPM
Hey guys its Rosie, yes i am making a comment! on what lucinda was saying about Ted, it seems that he went for Sylvia because he found that he could manipulate her in a way, quite sad really but in the end things kinda fell apart for him anyway because Sylvia killed herself and so did Assia Wevill (Teds mistress)
ReplyDeleteHi all. due to complications Lyndel at this current time cannot be part of our blog but she wishes to inform you all that there is a video on you tube that is good in assisting us with King Lear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-PQPOw5cU. lots of letters i know but give it a go :)
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