Megan Ehrhard her unabridged letters (collection I) is coming out in UK and US thus October.

There are two volumes, each approx 1000 pages, that's right, 1000 pages@@Honeybee134

It makes me wonder if this was spontaneous. She doesn't pause or use fillers once.

Celia Many of her ex-boyfriends have commented on that exact fact - that she completely lacked "spontaneity."

​@@CotswoldCreativeit doesn't sound as if she's reading, but perhaps she had somewhat pre-composed some of her responses. But on the whole I believe she was just talking spontaneously. It's not all that extraordinary to be able to articulate spontaneously, especially back in those times when people very much were conscious of how they spoke (and also she was a poet and a person who very much traded in her ability to use language).

S=Solitary Y=Yearnings L=Lonely V=Vulnerable I=Innocent A=Artist Sylvia♥️ Your poems are difficult to understand, So many allegories and symbolic representations . Nevertheless your poems have that elusive beauty which pulls the reader back repeatedly. I am curious to know your final days. A beautiful and sad life... Reality of World can be very painful for someone so sensitive. So much extraordinary talent lost forever. Perhaps you have been reincarnated in a better world. We miss you Sylvia ♥️ Grace 💐

Tape players are available online,or,at Argos...

Wow thanks

That is quite fascinating. I have this precise image on a t-shirt and I have always wondered about its location. Thank you for sharing.

Yes, it's very low!

Agreed!

MtF trans.

@@forestdenizen6497 you are an idiot

Her daughter sounds just the same

I think Sylvia Plath was a red comet💋

agree!!!

She speaks with such conviction, I almost feel proud of her - being a longtime fan.

I agree. I come back to this so much. I love her drawl too.

Poor Sylvia seemed to have nine lives after attempting to take her life so often

I believe this interview was for radio, not sure if she ever did tv.

That's how they used to talk in New England back in those days, at least people who were educated in upper crust schools.

I am an Englishwoman & she does not sound English to me.

Same here, Sharon Tate is also my perfect woman.

Onmysheet She didn't kill herself buddy... Nothing she did was her fault...

Oh, there is nothing wrong with you. Sylvia Plath is an amazing woman!

She wasn't a perfect woman. Even so, it isn't always necessarily for a woman to be perfect in order to find her attractive.

Sarah

What do you mean?

I mean she's speaking here with the same lyricism and careful construction that she writes into her poetry; it's a really beautiful thing to hear, but on a second thought quite an unfortunate thing as well: this interview is an insight into a brilliant mind at its busy work, it is also insight into a mind that might never have found itself in enough of an august company to speak freely, casually... there's a loneliness to that that is unspeakable namely because there aren't ears around to hear of it... there's also a courage needed to continue speaking nevertheless, it's the courage of the shut mouth in spite of artillery....yadigg Nancy?

Blue Ribbon Manor I do, Blue Ribbon. Thank you for explaining. I actually find that in her journals. They are poetry to me! Thanks again.

@@nancyrose8028 one of her biographers observed that her journals read like drafts of stories...certainly, there's an implied reader.

@@michaelz-c4178 what you said seems like poetry too

Are these journals rare to find?

Try Amazon.com. I actually bought mine used and it was in great shape, but I have read and reread it so much that it is literally falling apart! I will be looking for another one myself very soon. Be sure you get the unabridged copy, "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath". The editor is Karen V. Kukil, the Associate Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, where she supervises the scholarly use of the Sylvia Plath Collection. This book covers the years1950 -1962 and is transcribed from the original manuscripts of Sylvia Plath.

whyme760 I don't understand that last part.

@@fuji_apples9765 Ted Hughes took a mistress Assia Wevill, who also committed suicide years after Sylvia.

@@fuji_apples9765 @wyme760 refers to the social mores of a time which were the source of immense frustration for Plath prior to feminism's 2nd wave. The journals describe a person who could excel at conforming to 50s notions of the quintessential "good girl" while at the same time being a brood hen to a self destined to become one with "the arrow / the dew that flies / suicidal, at one with the drive /into the red / eye, the cauldron of morning". Sylvia Plath's intelligence, ambition and drive to outwardly satisfy the values of 50s culture while simultaneously being able to unpeel the "dead stringencies" of that culture in her poems is truly remarkable. her journals include many bitter rages about the sexual double standards of the time.

Or the English pronounce sixth sickd or fifth fith ugh

Sarah

She sounds like she’s on the verge of screaming out of sheer panic.

Then you probably shouldn't make a judgemental on one short interview. She also sounded anxious and a bit manic here. Depression in full bloom.

Sounds like she's very intelligent person and it takes one to know one

She affected a Transatlantic accent.

@@Px828 When she got over it, she was a fine reader.

Yes it’s called a Transatlantic accent. What old Hollywood actors used to use - they thought it sounded refined

I agree. It sounds phony and cold. It's not the voice I hear in her poetry. It's sad. I think she tried very hard to please people.

@@faintscrawl I was taken aback when I heard it. Who would've thought?