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anyways, I know your throughout your blog, you emphasize that we should focus on her poems, rather then the Sylvia Plath “myth”, but while this song by ryan adams and the movie may do this…it also piques the interest in Sylvia Plath for that not so well-read (i.e. myself), that may have otherwise have never heard of her.
so basically sylvia plath is a gateway drug to poetry.
have fun with this totally uninformed post which you can totally rip apart, or you could back it up and somehow make me seem smarter than I really am.
uhhh this is supposed to be a comment for amanda’s sylvia plath blog, but it won’t let me leave it, and I dont wanna lose it. so here it is.
but, im going to try to tie this in with our discussion. This song more or less leads to more questions then anything. But what if we can be in love with an idea in our head? Or that our soul mate is an idea we have created of someone in our minds. Undoubtedly we all do this when searching for our soul mates, but at what point do we impose (i’m looking for a better word here) these characterstics of a person that we desire when they are actually not there. Here it can be interpeted that Ryan Adams is singing about this idealized soul-mate. Where can you draw the line? Anyways I don’t think it is possible for one to know, or create an idealized soul-mate in your head…because when you actually meet that person they teach you or make you realize things that you may have wanted that you would have never have thought of. If you had your “ideal” soul-mate, it wouldn’t be your soul-mate….because there needs to be some conflict in love, that’s how you grow as a person.
Also, this song is a perfect example of the entire love-art-time causation/conflict.
Anyways enough rambling….I’ve somehow managed to include Sylvia Plath, Ryan Adams, our class discussion, love, gateway drugs, and poetry in one blog post……
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Ah, but what if the deepest compatibilities always include conflict–something like one’s compatibility/conflict with oneself….
Also, your musings above (I love the idea of Plath as a gateway drug–this is an amazing thought) prepare you and us very well for Vertigo. The movie, I mean.
Comment by Dr. C. 04.14.07 @ 7:16 am[...] Ps. Thanks to Mark for making this excellent post on his blog for Dr. Campbell’s class….go check it out and enjoy the song: http://blogs.elsweb.org/marksawesomeblog/2007/04/13/ignore-this-seriously [...]
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after talking to christine about the post, i want to make clear that by conflict I don’t mean “drama.” Rather if you 100% compatible with someone you can’t learn anything from them, and with incompatibilty undoubtedly conflict (but in a more constructive way) arises.
Comment by mark 04.14.07 @ 12:25 am