Jon Corelis wrote:-
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.
And Oz playwrite Louis Nowra is one who says that... It's a view I'm
sympathetic to. To me, though their openness was groundbreaking,
Lowell and Plath tend sometimes to look to the industry that will come
after them, something I dislike in 'spokespeople for the disabled'. Of
course who is talking when they talk like that?
For mine, James Schuyler in the Payne Whitney Poems and elsewhere
writes much better of pressing his face to the glass, wanting to be well.
Wanting a different out from parts of Plath.
It's the industry around Plath and Lowell I dislike most, the easy way
secondary and tertiary courses suggested Poetry by Women died with
Sylvia Plath, and there's no point reading men after Robert Lowell...
There's much to admire, but certainly some things you can dislike in
both poets complete works. Lowell is an easy poet to love, then you likely
fall out of love with him fairly completely.
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