Not me! But John Clarke is.
Cheers,
Cassie
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:48:22 PDT, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hearing a recording of Plath reading Daddy is an uncomfortable
> experience. This is nothing distanced about it. It sounds like a
> crisis therapy session. Can that poem have any meaning without Freud?
>
> I've heard some people criticize that poem on the grounds that it's
> morally contemptible to compare one's personal neurotic suffering to
> Nazi genocide. I've heard others defend it on the grounds that the only
> effective metaphor for Hell that we have left is the camps. Anyone
> here foolish enough to take sides in this?
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