We shall by morning/Inherit the earth/Our foot’s in the door.

Here we go… January 25, 2007

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This is my first (admittedly feeble) attempt at blogging so we shall see how well I can keep up with it. I am extremely excited and nervous to take on the poetry of Sylvia Plath this semester and it is my hope that I can validate her poetry purely on the basis that it is fantastic poetry; with the ultimate goal of separating it from her tragic biography.
My advisor in this pursuit is professor Emerson. She suggested that I title this blog “thinking outside of the oven”, This is both a highlarious and accurate description of what i’m attempting to do. I realize that it is going to be nearly impossible to divorce Plath’s life from her poetry, as she was a confessional poet, but I think that her poetry is too often lauded simply because people love a good tragedy. Too many people read her poetry looking for clues to her death or fall into insanity, and I’d like to read her poetry and discover the themes that shape her volumes and other such underestimated features that make her poetry so sensational.
We shall see where this takes me… Sylvia Plath