09-13-2011, 12:43 PM
Thanks for the kind words and feedback Billy
I doubt the academics I mean (poetry scholars more than actual poets) would concern themselves with talking the first person out of it. They just object to suicide as a theme for poetry. That's what I meant anyway. I hope it didn't seem as though I was haughtily glorifying the act.
I didn't reference The Whitsun Weddings as a simile for death; what I meant was that, like how Larkin was compelled to write while passing through Whitsun and seeing the wedding parties, so I'm compelled to write about suicide.
The Savage God is a 1972 study of suicide by A. Alvarez, who was close with Plath.
I see what you mean about the last line. I may remove it.
Thanks for the kind words, AA You flatter me.
I doubt the academics I mean (poetry scholars more than actual poets) would concern themselves with talking the first person out of it. They just object to suicide as a theme for poetry. That's what I meant anyway. I hope it didn't seem as though I was haughtily glorifying the act.
I didn't reference The Whitsun Weddings as a simile for death; what I meant was that, like how Larkin was compelled to write while passing through Whitsun and seeing the wedding parties, so I'm compelled to write about suicide.
The Savage God is a 1972 study of suicide by A. Alvarez, who was close with Plath.
I see what you mean about the last line. I may remove it.
Thanks for the kind words, AA
You flatter me.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe