Archive for the Poetry category
Episode 6: Excerpts from The Bell Jar
by Lauren on April 15th, 2007
In which I read out my favorite passages from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. It’s one of my favorite books of all time, especially now that I’m at an extremely low point of my life. I highly recommend that you get around to reading it.
“[W]herever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 15
Music credit: June by Pinback
Episode 2: Mad Girl’s Love Song
by Lauren on April 3rd, 2007
In which I recite one of my favorite poems, Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath.
Music credit: Sara’s Death by Hikaru Nanase
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”