11-21-2018, 12:35 AM
I don't know about other people, but I have a lot of horrible thoughts in my head. Horrible feelings. I don't really see why someone like Plath gets such a hard wrap. She must've known the score, otherwise she wouldn't've killed herself. I don't think she killed herself just to get attention. Maybe she killed herself because her poetry was so bad. . . . But then again, if you actually read her, other than her most famous poems, she really doesn't write about herself a lot.
Or is it bad rap? What's the proper terminology?
And, yeah, I know she wrote about herself in The Bell Jar. But I'm talking about her poetry. And as for Bukowski. We got other American poets. Frost, for instance. But who's more influencial? I'd say Bukowski. But my question is, why?
And then there's Plath's husband, who was also a poet, if we don't forget. And I've tried to read his stuff. I used to check his collected poems out of the library every few years. Thinking it would grow on me, but it never did. It just seems flat. Do any of you here think that has more to do with the precedented hype of his famous wife, or the merit of his poetry? Because S. Plath can be rather flat too. Not physically, . . . though I'm sure by now . . . , but poetically. Not figuratively, but poemly.
This is the problem with drinking at 6 in the morning. Around noon, you think you're just going to have an innocent fart. And you end up shitting yourself. . . . And that's not figurative, either. Or is it? . . .
Or is it bad rap? What's the proper terminology?
And, yeah, I know she wrote about herself in The Bell Jar. But I'm talking about her poetry. And as for Bukowski. We got other American poets. Frost, for instance. But who's more influencial? I'd say Bukowski. But my question is, why?
And then there's Plath's husband, who was also a poet, if we don't forget. And I've tried to read his stuff. I used to check his collected poems out of the library every few years. Thinking it would grow on me, but it never did. It just seems flat. Do any of you here think that has more to do with the precedented hype of his famous wife, or the merit of his poetry? Because S. Plath can be rather flat too. Not physically, . . . though I'm sure by now . . . , but poetically. Not figuratively, but poemly.
This is the problem with drinking at 6 in the morning. Around noon, you think you're just going to have an innocent fart. And you end up shitting yourself. . . . And that's not figurative, either. Or is it? . . .