Sylvia Plath documentary
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- Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death in 1963. The Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously.
Sylvia Plath documentary
2009
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I have to say that Sylvia’s personal life has never overshadowed the brilliance of her poetry for me.
Nor for me
@@SNAFU78 yeah I was about to say that it only made me more invested in her writing
her writing often feels oppressive, unsettling but also melancholic.... those kind of impressions usually don't come from excessive happiness
The creations aren't always a reflection of the creator's lifestyle choices.
Why should it overshadow it? Her personal life is intrinsic to her poetry
just like van Goghs paintings her poetry seems to bring out the fragility and sadness of life
Thank you! She and Toni Morrison were the writers who got me back into reading during covid and her (Slyvia’s writing) helped me through a very dark time in my life.
You're welcome! That's awesome! She's my 2nd fav after Fitzgerald.
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@@AuthorDocumentaries Fitzgerald? Lol, Hemingway who he shared a friendship with used to make fun of him because he always wanted to hobnob and be apart of the elite class.
Toni Morrison?????
@@yelloworangered Toni Morrison wrote Beloved and The Bluest Eye, both of which I greatly enjoyed. Although I will say that Edith Wharton is my current favorite author.
Sylvia Plath's poems may never be equaled. Her
perseverance to
write her poetry,
is testament to
true eloquence
in that medium.
The hardship she
faced in her personal life should never overshadow her
magnificent
poetical contribution to the world.
May she forever
REST IN PEACE.
Amazing documentary. Can't wait to check out the rest!
Until I understood manic depression, I always wondered why such a successful academic as Plath seemed to revel in a self-centered and obsessived deprecation -- and to be so defunct of joy. As a young studenet of poetry myself, I understood her more than most poets and have always been impacted by her haunting, spooky, sorrowful and sarcastic words. The worse thing she did was marry Hughes and his profiting from her death and talent shows what a despicable man he was. Geniuses of her mind are overwhlemed and unable to compute Life for very long.
Beautifully done!...wow...how haunting, in such a beautiful way.
I really enjoyed this documentary! Plath is my favorite and her work is amazing!
Great job on giving Plath's poetry a gorgeous connection to place -- here Yorkshore.
Loved the readings of the poems and the beautiful landscapes. Thank you.
A wonderful short documentary.
Thank you for such a beautiful documentary ❤
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What an amazing upload. Thoroughly enjoyed. Brilliant. Thanks for sharing. I love Plath already and you make me love her even more. Her images are incredible and you helped tease out some more I never noticed before. 🥰
Thank you for this. Loved it. Just read Heather Clark’s massive Bio on Plath and she explored all the things that made her a talented, skilled and professional writer, not just a seriously depressed woman. She looks at what Sylvia was facing those last months instead of just saying how she ended. Anytime I can see her legacy given a full representation is so appreciated, ✌️🌈!
Wonderful doc. Thank you.
Forever my shadow sister 🕯️
This is a poem I wrote in honour of Sylvia.
Slice of a fat purple fig is her short life’s work
Yellow tulips a kind reminder one’s not alone
Lady’s knife is still sharp on her blade
Victorious flame rages on after death
Illness sadly came for the best
Ariel opened arms as Sylvia flew to freedom.
Thank you for your poetry 🍻
thank you for post this
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This is an excellent documentary, and while a bit hard to find, I have the whole series on dvd.
She was a wonderful writer , love her works!
To the maker of this video,
Thank You very much for this video. 🙏
This has left me a deep impact ony soul, making me alive as a poet.
Thanks for this documentary! I never knew the English landscape effected Plath so strongly.
Incredible commentary! Good work. Keep working
It's been hard for me to read poetry, especially with my English teacher being possibly the worst teacher I've ever known ("safe learning environment" is foreign to her), but even under her, Sylvia Plath's story always enraptured me. I'm excited to learn more about her
"safe learning environment"? Newsflash - there are kids all over the world who are learning in conditions which genuinely are unsafe. I assume you are not a girl in Afghanistan?
@@phoebecaulfield4062unsafe learning turned out to have many many positive aspects compared to artificially created safe environments like playgrounds in north America. In Germany playgrounds seem more dangerous but give the kids the chance to develop themselves.
@@user-bs3br6sx3r Yes, I think you are talking about children being allowed to assess and manage levels of risk - which is a really important life skill.
What in the hell is an unsafe learning environment? Are the entrances to your lecture hall boobytrapped?
Why as we authors should suffer from many things and no body could understand our suffering, every writer, every author suffers from a thing that destroy his or her life, that's why we called authors, that's why we express our deepest thoughts so could people interact and rethink about every thing, every word, i hope that some day we have this appreciation like what you've did to Sylvia Plath honoring. Thank you for this great documentary, thank you for honoring us. Maguy Daoud Lebanese Author.
Anyone interested in Sylvia Plath's last days in London in their terrible winter of 1963 might consider reading "The Savage God/A Study of Suicide," by the late poet and critic A. Alvarez, who knew her very well right up to the day she ended her life.
Published in 1971, it's an exceptional study of a grim subject that receives very little attention. Here in America, we seem transfixed by murder but terrified of suicide.
found this by accident? It was amazing, thank you
Mind blown she wrote wuthering heights, the connections I have personally to wuthering heights and slyvia platt in my own work (unpublished) is beautiful I think. She inspires me a whole lot, and funnily enough I only got into her work within the last month but even reading my older work back I draw many comparisons to her and her work I throughly enjoy. ♥️
Wonderful. Thank you.
I like the documentary. Thank you.
Thanks for this upload. I enjoy her poetry. And have been obsessed with Brontës for years.
Gorgeous Production. 👌
"To fight aloud, is very brave,
But gallanter, I know
Who charge within the bosom
The Cavalry of Woe"
--the first stanza of a poem
by Emily Dickinson
OH MY GOD! i am absolutely stunned by these three poems by Sylvia.
Having read the obvious and not found pointers to further works, i fell into the appreciative but all consuming sad picture of her final days and writings- along with the controvertial relationship with Ted.
these early poems are magnificent, and i think this is where she should have stayed....not trying to change and find another voice or be influenced further. The weight of these three are comparable if not surpass that of Hughes at his best
Thanks for that.
Great American English poetry read w perfect diction! Really brings the AngloSaxonite verbs which add flint to her poems.
beautiful imagery
Thanks
10:08 If you think that the weather in Boston is noted for "bright skies," you'd better consult a weatherman.
Don't forget Anne Bronte. I love _Agnes Grey_ and _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_ but you missed her out.
The personal lives of most writers, poets, etc. are always replete with all but hedonism, vagabonding, self-indulgences, and much more like that... Though their work seems flawless, their personal life does make a big difference in really understanding the person in its whole. This is the case of many ones - famous and infamous throughout history in every field of life.
Plath had NONE of those issues. She was a struggling single mother of two infants whose life came crashing down. Try reading something other than a Hollywood gossip magazine to obtain your information.
She would have been 90 today, 10/27/22.
In her first poem about Top Withens, Two Views of Withens, S.P. says ." ...that hinterland few Hikers get to:" i think she would be surprised by how busy it is there these days. On her first visit, according to Ted Hughes, she approached it from the south.
Growing up in 50s America NOTHING was suffocating an I went on to revel in being a natural flower child at college in UC Berkeley.
Thank you...
❤❤❤
Interesting in the end of the documentary it seemed to imply that Sylvia claimed a piece of personal mystery to rejoin society with objectivity as though personal mystery could see the beauty of a normal city like a flashlight.
To me when I've embodied Milton's Satan in my life, I fancied that the lesson I learned, pretending to be Satan, is that the praise of the crowd is ash and glory is hollow.
In one of the passages of Paradise Lost Milton's Satan was jealous of how Eve's "submissive charms" were so pleasing to Adam.
It's like Satan thinks he's driven by his duties as a commander, but discovered when all his friends turned into snakes biting at ash that you can't sacrifice being a romantic to be a good leader. The part you left behind tends to starve your friends and family too.
I also felt Satan embodied a sense of anger of being left out for no clear reason. In Paradise Lost he was the brightest of God's Angels. That heaven was the epitome of perfection and yet that contradiction of wills between him and God still took place. Satan said as though giving advice to the reader that heaven is founded on heirarchy, and that even with the perfection of heaven the best of being human was excluded, like love romance and courage and loyalty.
It implies that no matter how perfect heaven is, heaven is never worth it unless it's shaped around these perfect human qualities.
Thank you for this documentary. The reference to Milton's Mulberry Bush brought these thoughts back to life for me. I thought them and forgot them as I simply lived them and took them for granted like a piece of code that perfectly describes what it means to be human.
I find it fascinating when Dr. Jordan Peterson assumes Lucifer's only motivation is to build Paradise, and that implies to me a sense of hubris where heaven seems rejected by humanity in favor of being human and heaven felt the need to lie to justify itself as relevant to humanity.
It's the part of Lucifer that isn't a temptation. It's his genuine value. His tempting is just a reminder that a half human can never be satisfied except as a whole human being, each partial value represents something missing and worthy of derision. Ultimately not even God would be immune, given that being perfectly ordered is incoherent to a human being.
Yorkshire for Sylvia Plath was
mysterious, otherworldly ect,
but to James Herriot it was about the animals and people he encountered in his work as
a veterinarian. 😏
Well done, thank you. I have a new project
: )
Cambridge misery icons is right!
Read the poems,very talent
I couldn't help what happened to her in her childhood.
Last part of my research her saddest poem moon and yew tree last poem death her psychiatrist said she have clinical depression she attempted suicide several times tried to drown her self finally she putting her head inside oven her husband is Ted Hughes he is English poet translator children writer critic listed of 50 greatest writers since 1945 he appointed poet of laureate in year 1984 iwish for your channel more success and progress stay safe blessed actually writing and reading both are great ways to improve our English language as none native speakers best wishes for you your family friends
Thanks Khatoon. Good researching. I didn't know that about Mothers Day
How are you doing sir happy mother day actually we celebrated mother day in Arabic countries as well as England last March it’s different date around world we on March you in USA and Canada on May thank you for your wonderful cultural channel we as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well literature lovers too we appreciate your efforts so that i gathered key points about famous figure you mentioned briefly here it’s Sylvia Plath is American poetess novelist short story writer born in 1932 died in 1963 she is credited with advancing genre confessional poetry she was best known of her two published collections the colossus and other poems Ariel and bell jar semi autobiographical novel published shortly before her death collected poems were published in 1981 included unpublished works was award Pulitzer Prize in poetry 1982 making her fourth to receive honor posthumously her famous poem daddy
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Who wrote the poem that introduces the programme?
I liked it and the presenter was good but I would have liked to have known more about her life, the break up of her marriage and what led to her suicide.
Her abusive husband left her for another woman. This event precipitated a cascade of woes, including the confinement of Plath and her babies to an almost unheated apartment (in the house where Yeats used to live) during the worst winter England had experienced in a century.
Thank you for clarifying.@@maxalberts2003
My response to "In Search of Sylvia: An Introduction." by Edward Butscher.
Some people don't care about truth or respect in academia. This article claimed that Sylvia Plath was just a unique "female power myth" and seemed to only define her art through the assumption that the structure was more valuable than the artist.
But Sylvia Plath discovered that to mature she couldn't define herself as a wife to Ted or even a poet and had to be defined in herself as a person. When she died it seemed to me to be the opposite of narcissism, which to me seems to be well defined as over-identifying with superficial social structure at the expense of ones own humanity. What Sylvia seems to me to be to be proof that the art of poetry is deeper than the superficial psychosis created by pathology implicit in the social structure which seems to be more of a problem for Edward in this case than Sylvia. Sylvia Plath reached the edge of social psychosis and because it didn't fit her humanity and need to mature her death created a wedge against a pathologically stagnant society that used it's academic sophistication to try to pretend that they were deeper in their humanity than the artist. But when Sylvia Plath committed suicide she proved the structure was incapable of nurturing the maturity of the individual and that form of academia was poisoned to die because of her so that individuals can mature past the smart sounding lies of narcissistic projection by people like Edward Butscher.
The problem with most academics had been designed to just be clever lies to stagnant normative human maturity, but if colleges focus more on poetry and the humanities as a deeper form as counter wedges against Freudian pseudopsychology designed to wedge against normative human maturity.
The aspect he got right is that by wedging against the superficial narcissistic academic "conversation" Freud can become a neutral truth of human pathology in a type of still water so that people can see their relationship to the pathological structure as a neutral path to recovery without identifying with the pathology and can also allow a person to live society in spite of it's pathology because a person's humanity can prevail against pathology and not just wedge against it. A person can survive and become wealthy within the structure and make it better due to unconditional love that allows for accountability that prevents trauma and knows that trauma isn't ok but that forgiveness is ok.
Butscher was an old-fashioned Freudian, through and through. He also appears to have HATED women--feminists in particular. In that same volume you mention, he described one of Robin Morgan's poems as "an abortion."
The narrative theory of social justice tends to throw out the baby with the bath water, but the problem with diaspora wisdom, which is what most post-modern arguments in academics are about, the question is which belt is good for which group. The idea of critiquing one school of thought in favor of another is someone shopping for a belt for someone else, and that if you buy them a belt, then they'll like you and include you, but if they're that desperate, then you already know that any group, it doesn't matter if they're black, Hispanic or LGBTQ, that the wisdom of desperation means that they'd let you do their homework, and then leave you out in the cold.
My solution to that is to make my own belt perfectly beautiful, and then replicate any missing parts for someone else by making the cold the nice place to be. ;)
Foresight is a better indicator of being included than giving someone gifts and trying to guilt them into including you.
But that's not me though. I actually just posted a video defending free will, and how all diaspora wisdoms, in themselves, are merely roads to nowhere.
That being said, there's often, at least one, defensible wisdom in the old schools of thought, but that requires making your own belt instead of trying to be part of someone else's.
I make my own bread.
Hope you're having a good day.
Wuthering heights is written by Bronte not Sylvia Plath, you miss lead or confused between two of them I think.
oh my god why are they roasting Sylvia plath
Is it " solider colour " or " soldier colour?"
Lovely to see a doc.aboot Mrs Ted Hughes.... great gas....lo bloody l
I think she had post party
It can last 20 years after delivery.
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Actually wuthering heights was written by Emily bronte not sylvia plath. Wuthering heights was written in 19th century, this is a century before sylvia plath was born
The novel wuthering heights was Written by Emily. The poem was written by Sylvia Plath.
October 27th is my mom's birthday. Also, Sylvia died just a few days after my birth. (Not that her death and my birth are somehow connected.)
To explain a poem is a fool's errand.
Yes. Enjoy the work of art without over analyzing it because we don't know what went through the poet's mind in the creative process. We're just seeing it from our perspective.
@@euleneatsand poetry has no rules - which is what makes it great and akin to art
very outstanding woman...wish the medical professionals had saved her from depression so she could have continued her talent.. her husband was not helpful
Anybody knows what happened to her kids?
I hope they have (or had) a great, fun life 🍻
God love her she looked so sad most of the time pity what she did she must have had a trobled mind May she rip
Sylvia Plath was beautiful and some would indeed say talented. She, of course, struggled with mental illness and / or depression for perhaps seasons of her life. Her poetry to me seemed dark well, "Lady Lazarus" did. It's sort of ironic because in the bible, Jesus resurrected His friend Lazarus, who was dead for a few days [John 11:38-44] Jesus Christ Himself died for sinners, resurrected from the dead, proving He himself is life and only He offers eternal life for our souls.
Sylvia Plath appeared alive, both young and pretty, but she was dead on the inside, she was dead in the spirit and it manifested through her poetry. *Out of the abundance of one's heart, the mouth speaks* [Matthew 12:34] the LORD saw her in her last moments before freely committing suicide.
*Look to Jesus for relief from sin, depression, and all issues of life He is love* ❤
Irresponsible killing herself with the issue partly being insomnia which is true for many, and being a person who coped out as example to family who went on to suicide TOO. All yhe writing does not exonerate killing herself as her behavior wrecked havoc on others
His lips! Who is he?? 🤩
Disappointing. I thought I would learn about Plath, not other people's musings about her.
lol. its not like she came to england from so cal.. she was from boston.. plenty dismal.. and full of career crime too.. her english accent in later years is possibly the funniest part of all.. great poet though.
that comment was a little sexist ??? 'inspired women poets?'...can a man not be inspired by her poetry or that of another womans?
Ted Hughes was the superior poet.
Not even remotely. No one would remember him were it not for his greatly superior 1st wife.
Such childish comments. Why not just say: 1. I prefer Ted Hughes’s poetry. 2. Really? For me, he is only notable for having been married to her, whose poetry I like.
Sylvia would agree with you but I wouldnt. Put it this way, I searched for Plath not Hughes
@@Jessicaunarexhe was Poet Laureate
Hughes knew she was the better poet. Why do you think he split?
Its refreshing to see toung people discussing poetry instead of the radical nonsense we see on college campuses.