Sylvia Plath

[megaton24]

Was Sylvia Plath influenced by Edgar Allan Poe?

 

[Mindful]

Why do you say that?

 

[strollingbones]

no....they were both rather morose yet i do not see her style reflecting much poe.....more...and i hate to say this..hemingway....i am not a hemingway fan...

 

[Mindful]

So they all had dark depression in common?

 

[strollingbones]

i wonder if all three drank heavily....poe and hemingway did....latest on poe...they now believe he died of rabies....

 

[strollingbones]

“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

 

[strollingbones]

it has been decades since i read the bell jar

 

[strollingbones]

i am not of the mind that poe was insane....i think poe was a genius....i read a lot of poe....lol

 

[strollingbones]

and in all honesty their works arent that dark...you want dark....'last exit to brooklyn' which was made into a movie that sucked....book is dark and hostile