Poetry Blog... Again!

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Of the three poets that we studied this unit - Emily Dickinson, Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath - I guess I can say that I can relate to Emily Dickinson the most and maybe some of Sylvia Plath's dark side. Emily Dickinson, according to a majority of historical sources, has been reclusive for almost her entire life. She was not shown in public much and preferred to write poems in her room all by herself. In a way, I too enjoy solitude. There are moments in life when I JUST want to be alone which is why I sometimes stay up until very late at night. The quietness inspire me to think, read and write more (This is why I sometimes write like crazy during the night.) So, when historians conclude Dickinson as being a very reserved and quiet person I feel like I can understand her, to some extent.

When Mrs. Lavender (who probably would be reading this by the way) talked about Sylvia Plath as being very outgoing but at the same time a very dark person, I thought to myself that I was very much like her. It seems that Plath consumes her energy by socializing with other people, while she regains her energy by being alone. I too like to be very engaging but at the same time, I desperately need a time for myself which is exactly what Sylvia Plath was like. Also, in terms of the struggle she had to go through, I had a very similar experience as a young middle schooler. As a student going to a very (academically) competitive school, I always struggled between the need to study and the want to be... well, 'free' from the boundaries that society had set me. For Plath, it was society's restrictions laid on mothers that made her incredibly suffer which in some way worsened her depression.