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[Question][Spec] Sylvia Plath Poetry

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:33 am

Exige · Greenhorn Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 8

great research. that is really interesting. what significance would she have on this story though? ill read a biograph yon htis person, ands ee if there are any ties, any clues. good research.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:07 am

Anonymous Coward · Boot Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 39

Wikipedia article on Sylvia Plath.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:20 am

Crzygeoff · Boot Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Florida

It seems like there may be some kind of connection there. After googling Otto Plath, I came across this: "Otto Plath's career flourished. He published the book 'Bumblebees and Their Ways' not long after Sylvia's birth."

Now, I'm serious noob, and I would have no idea what the connection would actually be/mean, but it's certainly interesting nonetheless, especially in light of the poems that obviously have quite a lot in common with the characters/themes we've been seeing in the game thus far.
Geoff

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:00 am

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Anonymous Coward · Boot Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 39

I really thing you're on to something...

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:27 am

Crzygeoff · Boot Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Florida

Unfortunately, this thread (as of yet) isn't getting the attention I think it deserves. Maybe it should have been posted in puzzles? I don't know, I'm a noob.
Geoff

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:45 am

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BoonIsha · Decorated Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 207

good work interested guest...amazing actually...

might i recommend getting on #beekeepers tonight to see what comes up? love to hear some more from you

boon

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:09 am

AnonBoy · Guest

Cool Stuff

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:11 am

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Interested Guest, please register here! Just one find like this (whether it means something or not) is important, and your research and such is valued here. Of course, you don't have to join, but I think it's unanimous here, that this is the kind of thinking that's needed more.

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**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:22 am

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No need to start a puzzle thread as yet, but you are right this is really interesting spec. Perhaps Dana was a fan and had a lot of poetry on her computer. Keep noodling it and see where it takes you!

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:24 am

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Excellent work! I'll go along with the motion to invite you in as a full member... we need input like yours.

-- Steve'll be reading some Plath poetry when he gets home tonight.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:28 am

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cpip · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 109 Location: KY

Wasn't Sylvia Plath the author of the Bell Jar, one of the classic novels about depression?

Certainly, Dana seems to have evinced some symptoms of depression...

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:10 am

Anonymous Coward · Boot Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 39

For what it's worth, I've sent copies of the 'Widow' and 'Spider' poems off to ladybee777SPLAThotmail.com - my last attempt at communication with verse was quite successful, anyhow. Very Happy

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:13 am

hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

Until this showed up in Puzzles, I entirely ignored this thread because I dislike the poetry of Sylvia Plath.

It's too whiny and self-loathing for me.

While it seems unrelated as of yet, I bet you guys researching it know that she killed herself in 1963 by wrapping her head in a cloth and putting her head in a gas oven.

I just did a Google on that. Of note, but probably entirely irrelevant, she made her first attempt to kill herself on August 24, 1953.

http://www.neuroticpoets.com/plath/

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:18 am

jellyfish_green

I fired off a copy of Plath's "Poem for a Birthday", myself. Maybe she wants pictures too?

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:24 am