cynical

After reading the first part of Sylvia’s (we are on first name basis now!!) biography I came to the conclusion that she must have mildly suffered from the Electra Complex.Not as far as “penis-envy” but still she showed symptoms of the complex. Then when I checked it up online I found out that it is an opinion already in discussion. So now I’m trying to figure out if it was just a good assumption or whether I had known it before and it had been buried in my sub-concious till now. I’d rather go with the former.

Usually when I read a few poems by the same poet, I manage to derive some sort of idea as to what kind of a person the poet is or was. On the contrary, in the case of Sylvia Plath, you need to know about her and understand her life, if you want to, at the least, marginally comprehend her poetry. So I have temporarily given up reading her poetry and instead have started on her biography. And then I plan to read some of her diaries, especially the ones she wrote during the last period of her life. After that, I should hopefully be able to understand what she was trying to say.