Sylvia Plath's Last Recorded Words
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2010
- To conclude her review of 'Contemporary American Poetry' for the BBC, Sylvia Plath reads an extract from Galway Kinnell's 'Flower Herding Pictures On Mount Monadnock'.
These are the last recorded words of Sylvia Plath, 10th January 1963.
Sylvia was like a flower offered to a loved one: intense, beautiful and very delicate. Its brief existence was no accident.
she sounds smokey and far serious, more then the recordings in 1962. So much comes though her voice, its chilling.
i was thinking the same thing. There's something missing in her voice here, you might call it a kind of exhaustion, but it is as though something critical part of her is missing
Words to be cherished, she was a beautiful soul
she was a beautiful soul
I recently picked up THE SPOKEN WORD BBC Slyvia Plath cd and this (among a wealth of poems/interviews) is on it.... I wasn't aware until now that this is the very last recording of her... I really like the fact you post these recordings of Plath here... she is one of the greatest artists to live and your doing this helps keep the memory of her work alive.
@Jim Newcombe I think she very well might be. Hands down the best female American poet.And, yes, better than Emily Dickinson.
@Jim Newcombe then we have to agree to disagree. I wrote my Master's thesis on both of them ;-)
@@evastenskar3990 @jim - I get differences of opinion but, Jim, yours just seems vitriolic
Watched all the films of her and her son ,daughter an her husband.
She was so tormented, in her mind, the hospital experience, so very sad. Her husbands 2 wife killed herself , as did she, and her son took his life, it was all so dark, she was only 30.
She was very educated and was truly blessed with her poetry. RIP
@Deborah Warren Ted Hughes never married Asia Wevill, the woman for whom he left Plath. In 1969, Wevill committed suicide by gas along with Shura, her four-year-old daughter with Hughes.
@Deborah Warren Sylvia’s son Nick Hughes survived her by more than 45 years, so the cause of his death doesn’t reflect any of his mother’s behavior. Nothing Nick did was genetic. 45 years is a long time.
I hear a cloudy head, like she has a cold.
She did. She had colds and/or flus towards the end of her life. It was a bitterly cold winter in London that year.
I love the videos you post of her. Thanks
beautiful.
Amazing.
We treat our “Flowers” as any commodity which like all commodities wither and die too soon.
It's as if she's reading /speaking about herself...
i thought it was her poem and felt it lacked, but in fact its another's poem
there's some magic divide
She sounds depressed and defeated
Was this the photo of Sylvia holding the rose that was referenced in The Bell Jar, shortly before she had her breakdown?
🐐🐐🐐🐐
I feel sorry for her children growing up without her. She could have been such a presence in their lives. She robbed them of that
can someone transcript? unfortunately im not tje best engçish listener
In the forest I discover a flower.
The invisible life of the thing
Goes up in flames that are invisible,
Like cellophane burning in the sunlight.
It burns up. Its drift is to be nothing.
In its covertness it has a way
Of uttering itself in place of itself,
Its blossoms claim to float in the Empyrean,
A wrathful presence on the blur of the ground.
The appeal to heaven breaks off.
The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.
It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
(From Galway Kinnell's Flower Herding On Mount Monadnock)
thank you very much!!! @@Faith01841