She gives each word it's due and they become precious in their singularity then strung together sentences become a necklace of gems. Thank you Sylvia for these fine gifts.
Its amazing to think she's been gone for fifty years... she's still so relevant today. I have all but memorized her Letters Home and I would love to read her unabridged letters. There is still so much of her life story that is a mystery.
Wow! What a beautifully articulate woman. Her point about English children having to fit into the adults world instead of adults bending over backwards to fit into their children’s is well-taken.
What an absolutely mesmerizing speaker. The art of talking! Let's take inspiration from this beautiful voice and mind! Let's put our best foot forward, for the sake of one another, because it makes all our lives brighter!
Thanks immensely for posting this. Sylvia Plath is truly majestic, the way she forges sentences and chooses words that provides us with such a vivid description of England literally shocks me. I could be listening to her for hours and days.
@@CotswoldCreativeit doesn't sound as if she's reading, but perhaps she had somewhat pre-composed some of her responses. But on the whole I believe she was just talking spontaneously. It's not all that extraordinary to be able to articulate spontaneously, especially back in those times when people very much were conscious of how they spoke (and also she was a poet and a person who very much traded in her ability to use language).
S=Solitary Y=Yearnings L=Lonely V=Vulnerable I=Innocent A=Artist Sylvia♥️ Your poems are difficult to understand, So many allegories and symbolic representations . Nevertheless your poems have that elusive beauty which pulls the reader back repeatedly. I am curious to know your final days. A beautiful and sad life... Reality of World can be very painful for someone so sensitive. So much extraordinary talent lost forever. Perhaps you have been reincarnated in a better world. We miss you Sylvia ♥️ Grace 💐
She says, England is a very eccentric place with all sort of diversity and unique characters....a place where one has freedom to unapologetically be oneself! Now that's the kind of place I want to be in! -An eccentric soul lost in monogamy of everyday plainness & judgment
It's amazing how much I can relate to what she said here...especially after I visited the Alexander Fleming Museum. The discovery of penicillin was a huge thing back then.
i find her matters, meaning most everything about her in excess fascinating... her voice is so beautiful, with so many emotional nuisances to the strenght behind it.
Many years ago I taped a small section of this off of Aunty. It was the part where she is talking about Whitby. Well I no longer have a working tape deck, and I've still never been to Whitby. But, I've always remembered the sound of her voice, and it is great to hear it again.
This is Sylvia's voice?!! I never heard it before.Its not at all what I imagined her voice to be.For one thing its lower than I expected and just doesnt go with photos of her.Goodness,but this is startling!
Beautiful, innocent and delicate over privileged soul. I feel for her askew view of the outside world once introduced to it. She meant no harm but viewed it in a way only she could. I appreciate her forthcoming honesty.
A remarkable woman in England during a remarkable time in history; what a pleasure to hear Sylvia Plath's wonderful voice. She was an excellent and enthusiastic talker--and sounds older than her years. (I think she would have been a good actress.) A young co-worker of mine is interested in "feminist politics", if I remember right, in books and tomorrow I'm giving her a copy of "The Bell Jar". Sylvia Plath had charisma just talking; what must she have been like in person!
The wall she's sitting on in the photograph is above Heptonstall village and only about 200 yards south of Ted Hughes' parents home. The 'bump' behind her, close to the right edge of the picture is a stand of very mature trees and is still there. I could take you to the exact spot.
What have we learned? That butchers (IE there are virtually none left) and children have changed a lot in 50 years. It's great to put a voice to her, I don't know why I didn't think of looking on YT for stuff before, I'm on chapter 19 on The Bell Jar.
S=Solitary Y=Yearnings L=Lonely V=Vulnerable I=Innocent A=Artist Sylvia♥️ Your poems are difficult to understand, So many allegories and symbolic representations . Nevertheless your poems have that elusive beauty which pulls the reader back repeatedly. I am curious to know your final days. A beautiful and sad life... Reality of World can be very painful for someone so sensitive. So much extraordinary talent lost forever. Perhaps you have been reincarnated in a better world. We miss you Sylvia ♥️ Grace 💐
i visit this video now with an almost ritualistic consistency. I'd like to say its for reasons having to do with her awe-some verbal craftsmanship or the colourful description of England, though these reasons are legitimate, it is more for the slight drawl in her voice. One can imagine that she opens her jaw only slightly so as to have a small pocket of air to give resonance to the 't's and p's. A charming voice, and I'm not embarrassed by my almost fetishistic indulgence in it.
Been a fan of Sylvia almost my entire adult life. have read almost ever major bio on her, and am familiar with most of the pictorial records of her. Does anybody out there know of any actual moving FILM of her? To my knowledge I have never seen anything except still shots. I'd love to be able to associate her moving mouth with her voice or watch eyes and eyebrows coordinate with her amazing articulations.
"I heard with joy that no place in England was more than 70 miles from the sea." She should have moved here to the Isle Of Wight! It's measured 22.5 miles by 13.5 miles! 😂
A Beautiful voice now lost to 21 century vocal fry and upspeak. And then there is her expansive thought and overwhelming intelligence. Articulate she is.
I mean she's speaking here with the same lyricism and careful construction that she writes into her poetry; it's a really beautiful thing to hear, but on a second thought quite an unfortunate thing as well: this interview is an insight into a brilliant mind at its busy work, it is also insight into a mind that might never have found itself in enough of an august company to speak freely, casually... there's a loneliness to that that is unspeakable namely because there aren't ears around to hear of it... there's also a courage needed to continue speaking nevertheless, it's the courage of the shut mouth in spite of artillery....yadigg Nancy?
If someone is interested in feminist politics one should read her unabridged journals and read her early struggles as a woman and as a future writer. Plus her struggle with her own sexuality within the confines of the early 50s. Within the beginnings of the journals she lists what would fester in her and be dangerous. And sure enough it would be if her future husband would have an attractive woman as a mistress. (page 101)
Try Amazon.com. I actually bought mine used and it was in great shape, but I have read and reread it so much that it is literally falling apart! I will be looking for another one myself very soon. Be sure you get the unabridged copy, "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath". The editor is Karen V. Kukil, the Associate Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, where she supervises the scholarly use of the Sylvia Plath Collection. This book covers the years1950 -1962 and is transcribed from the original manuscripts of Sylvia Plath.
@@fuji_apples9765 @wyme760 refers to the social mores of a time which were the source of immense frustration for Plath prior to feminism's 2nd wave. The journals describe a person who could excel at conforming to 50s notions of the quintessential "good girl" while at the same time being a brood hen to a self destined to become one with "the arrow / the dew that flies / suicidal, at one with the drive /into the red / eye, the cauldron of morning". Sylvia Plath's intelligence, ambition and drive to outwardly satisfy the values of 50s culture while simultaneously being able to unpeel the "dead stringencies" of that culture in her poems is truly remarkable. her journals include many bitter rages about the sexual double standards of the time.
These people at this beach in Yorkshire knew how to make the best of a rainy day. This woman was always depressed.......even when the sun was shining. 😂 Her poems and books depressed me. She was an energy sucker. No positive source within herself.
She gives each word it's due and they become precious in their singularity then strung together sentences become a necklace of gems. Thank you Sylvia for these fine gifts.
Its amazing to think she's been gone for fifty years... she's still so relevant today. I have all but memorized her Letters Home and I would love to read her unabridged letters. There is still so much of her life story that is a mystery.
Megan Ehrhard her unabridged letters (collection I) is coming out in UK and US thus October.
There are two volumes, each approx 1000 pages, that's right, 1000 pages@@Honeybee134
“And I chose the cat” omg she cracked me up . Love you soooo much Sylvia. I miss you as if I knew you
Wow! What a beautifully articulate woman. Her point about English children having to fit into the adults world instead of adults bending over backwards to fit into their children’s is well-taken.
What an absolutely mesmerizing speaker. The art of talking! Let's take inspiration from this beautiful voice and mind! Let's put our best foot forward, for the sake of one another, because it makes all our lives brighter!
3:29. Even when she speaks casually, she’s composing a poem.
To use a line from Fish (Marillion)...'A tongue forged from eloquence'.
An exquisitely delightful listen. Thank you.
Thanks immensely for posting this.
Sylvia Plath is truly majestic, the way she forges sentences and chooses words that provides us with such a vivid description of England literally shocks me. I could be listening to her for hours and days.
It makes me wonder if this was spontaneous. She doesn't pause or use fillers once.
Celia Many of her ex-boyfriends have commented on that exact fact - that she completely lacked "spontaneity."
@@CotswoldCreativeit doesn't sound as if she's reading, but perhaps she had somewhat pre-composed some of her responses. But on the whole I believe she was just talking spontaneously. It's not all that extraordinary to be able to articulate spontaneously, especially back in those times when people very much were conscious of how they spoke (and also she was a poet and a person who very much traded in her ability to use language).
S=Solitary
Y=Yearnings
L=Lonely
V=Vulnerable
I=Innocent
A=Artist
Sylvia♥️
Your poems are difficult to understand,
So many allegories and symbolic representations .
Nevertheless your poems have that elusive beauty which pulls the reader back repeatedly.
I am curious to know your final days.
A beautiful and sad life...
Reality of World can be very painful for someone so sensitive.
So much extraordinary talent lost forever.
Perhaps you have been reincarnated in a better world.
We miss you Sylvia ♥️
Grace 💐
she kept a sense of childlike wonder, what a wonderful quality
G_d, I could listen to this amazing woman's voice 24/7. Love, love love her!
She says, England is a very eccentric place with all sort of diversity and unique characters....a place where one has freedom to unapologetically be oneself! Now that's the kind of place I want to be in!
-An eccentric soul lost in monogamy of everyday plainness & judgment
I love hearing her talk. Thanks for uploading this :)
It's amazing how much I can relate to what she said here...especially after I visited the Alexander Fleming Museum. The discovery of penicillin was a huge thing back then.
I want the ful interview right now!!!! :D :))) Thanks for uploading, her voice is sexi, cute, lyrical... Heaven
She is a just the most gorgeous human being.
i find her matters, meaning most everything about her in excess fascinating... her voice is so beautiful, with so many emotional nuisances to the strenght behind it.
Many years ago I taped a small section of this off of Aunty. It was the part where she is talking about Whitby. Well I no longer have a working tape deck, and I've still never been to Whitby. But, I've always remembered the sound of her voice, and it is great to hear it again.
Tape players are available online,or,at Argos...
fascinating combination of accents - New England Massachusetts, and OLD England!
This is Sylvia's voice?!! I never heard it before.Its not at all what I imagined her voice to be.For one thing its lower than I expected and just doesnt go with photos of her.Goodness,but this is startling!
Yes, it's very low!
Agreed!
MtF trans.
@@forestdenizen6497 you are an idiot
Her daughter sounds just the same
Beautiful, innocent and delicate over privileged soul. I feel for her askew view of the outside world once introduced to it.
She meant no harm but viewed it in a way only she could. I appreciate her forthcoming honesty.
Transatlantic heaven!👑
A remarkable woman in England during a remarkable time in history; what a pleasure to hear Sylvia Plath's wonderful voice. She was an excellent and enthusiastic talker--and sounds older than her years. (I think she would have been a good actress.) A young co-worker of mine is interested in "feminist politics", if I remember right, in books and tomorrow I'm giving her a copy of "The Bell Jar". Sylvia Plath had charisma just talking; what must she have been like in person!
The wall she's sitting on in the photograph is above Heptonstall village and only about 200 yards south of Ted Hughes' parents home. The 'bump' behind her, close to the right edge of the picture is a stand of very mature trees and is still there. I could take you to the exact spot.
Wow thanks
That is quite fascinating. I have this precise image on a t-shirt and I have always wondered about its location. Thank you for sharing.
What have we learned? That butchers (IE there are virtually none left) and children have changed a lot in 50 years. It's great to put a voice to her, I don't know why I didn't think of looking on YT for stuff before, I'm on chapter 19 on The Bell Jar.
Does anyone know if there is any video footage of her?
S=Solitary
Y=Yearnings
L=Lonely
V=Vulnerable
I=Innocent
A=Artist
Sylvia♥️
Your poems are difficult to understand,
So many allegories and symbolic representations .
Nevertheless your poems have that elusive beauty which pulls the reader back repeatedly.
I am curious to know your final days.
A beautiful and sad life...
Reality of World can be very painful for someone so sensitive.
So much extraordinary talent lost forever.
Perhaps you have been reincarnated in a better world.
We miss you Sylvia ♥️
Grace 💐
She has a beautiful speaking voice and the words she's speaking with that voice are also beautiful somehow
agree!!!
Always choose the cat.
Poor Sylvia seemed to have nine lives after attempting to take her life so often
Missing you Sylvia!
What ever she said about England 🇬🇧 🌉... Are so relatable 😍😍
I love how she chose the cat over a hot water bottle.
i visit this video now with an almost ritualistic consistency. I'd like to say its for reasons having to do with her awe-some verbal craftsmanship or the colourful description of England, though these reasons are legitimate, it is more for the slight drawl in her voice. One can imagine that she opens her jaw only slightly so as to have a small pocket of air to give resonance to the 't's and p's. A charming voice, and I'm not embarrassed by my almost fetishistic indulgence in it.
She speaks with such conviction, I almost feel proud of her - being a longtime fan.
I agree. I come back to this so much. I love her drawl too.
I actually read this last night in Red Comet.
I think Sylvia Plath was a red comet💋
Brilliant.
how lovely is this! gosh
I love you Sylvia... You have always been my alter ego.
Sylvia had a wonderful, steady voice. Why did you leave so early ???
Hard to believe she was only 30 when she left this realm.
Rest in paradise, chica. Soar where the finches never drop from the sky.
She might as well have been born in England. She has the accent and the cadence in her voice.
That's how they used to talk in New England back in those days, at least people who were educated in upper crust schools.
I am an Englishwoman & she does not sound English to me.
Been a fan of Sylvia almost my entire adult life. have read almost ever major bio on her, and am familiar with most of the pictorial records of her. Does anybody out there know of any actual moving FILM of her? To my knowledge I have never seen anything except still shots. I'd love to be able to associate her moving mouth with her voice or watch eyes and eyebrows coordinate with her amazing articulations.
I believe this interview was for radio, not sure if she ever did tv.
I know there is something wrong with me, this is literally my perfect woman!
Same here, Sharon Tate is also my perfect woman.
Onmysheet She didn't kill herself buddy... Nothing she did was her fault...
Oh, there is nothing wrong with you. Sylvia Plath is an amazing woman!
She wasn't a perfect woman. Even so, it isn't always necessarily for a woman to be perfect in order to find her attractive.
"I heard with joy that no place in England was more than 70 miles from the sea."
She should have moved here to the Isle Of Wight! It's measured 22.5 miles by 13.5 miles! 😂
Intelligence can be very attractive. She exuded it.
💜💜💜
Very different England now, Sylvia.
A Beautiful voice now lost to 21 century vocal fry and upspeak. And then there is her expansive thought and overwhelming intelligence. Articulate she is.
It's literally like a play
Sarah
unbeknownst to most, this is a poem
What do you mean?
I mean she's speaking here with the same lyricism and careful construction that she writes into her poetry; it's a really beautiful thing to hear, but on a second thought quite an unfortunate thing as well: this interview is an insight into a brilliant mind at its busy work, it is also insight into a mind that might never have found itself in enough of an august company to speak freely, casually... there's a loneliness to that that is unspeakable namely because there aren't ears around to hear of it... there's also a courage needed to continue speaking nevertheless, it's the courage of the shut mouth in spite of artillery....yadigg Nancy?
Blue Ribbon Manor I do, Blue Ribbon. Thank you for explaining. I actually find that in her journals. They are poetry to me! Thanks again.
@@nancyrose8028 one of her biographers observed that her journals read like drafts of stories...certainly, there's an implied reader.
@@michaelz-c4178 what you said seems like poetry too
Such a shame she left this world at a young age.
okay.. a godess. I'd hug her if I could.. thanks for uploading!!
If someone is interested in feminist politics one should read her unabridged journals and read her early struggles as a woman and as a future writer. Plus her struggle with her own sexuality within the confines of the early 50s. Within the beginnings of the journals she lists what would fester in her and be dangerous. And sure enough it would be if her future husband would have an attractive woman as a mistress. (page 101)
Are these journals rare to find?
Try Amazon.com. I actually bought mine used and it was in great shape, but I have read and reread it so much that it is literally falling apart! I will be looking for another one myself very soon. Be sure you get the unabridged copy, "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath". The editor is Karen V. Kukil, the Associate Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, where she supervises the scholarly use of the Sylvia Plath Collection. This book covers the years1950 -1962 and is transcribed from the original manuscripts of Sylvia Plath.
whyme760
I don't understand that last part.
@@fuji_apples9765 Ted Hughes took a mistress Assia Wevill, who also committed suicide years after Sylvia.
@@fuji_apples9765 @wyme760 refers to the social mores of a time which were the source of immense frustration for Plath prior to feminism's 2nd wave. The journals describe a person who could excel at conforming to 50s notions of the quintessential "good girl" while at the same time being a brood hen to a self destined to become one with "the arrow / the dew that flies / suicidal, at one with the drive /into the red / eye, the cauldron of morning". Sylvia Plath's intelligence, ambition and drive to outwardly satisfy the values of 50s culture while simultaneously being able to unpeel the "dead stringencies" of that culture in her poems is truly remarkable. her journals include many bitter rages about the sexual double standards of the time.
If only Americans all spoke like her. Instead, people say “I want to ax you a question “, or “which I’m so excited”. Ugh!
Or the English pronounce sixth sickd or fifth fith ugh
You have to laugh. Moaning about terraced houses. Now we live in rabbit hutches and told we've never had it so good.
Channeling
Sarah
Her voice resembles Gwyneth Paltrow's to a great extent.
These people at this beach in Yorkshire knew how to make the best of a rainy day. This woman was always depressed.......even when the sun was shining. 😂 Her poems and books depressed me. She was an energy sucker. No positive source within herself.
elocution , diction , phrasing and maniacal selfishness
sounds a woman, looks a girl
Honestly.. and I'm fully aware this will be blasphemy for all the Plath fans out there.. but she doesn't sound very smart at all.
She sounds like she’s on the verge of screaming out of sheer panic.
Then you probably shouldn't make a judgemental on one short interview.
She also sounded anxious and a bit manic here. Depression in full bloom.
Sounds like she's very intelligent person and it takes one to know one
She has an affected English accent. It's embarrassing.
She affected a Transatlantic accent.
@@Px828 When she got over it, she was a fine reader.
Yes it’s called a Transatlantic accent. What old Hollywood actors used to use - they thought it sounded refined
I agree. It sounds phony and cold. It's not the voice I hear in her poetry. It's sad. I think she tried very hard to please people.
@@faintscrawl I was taken aback when I heard it. Who would've thought?