Sylvia Plath

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 1 of 2.

Your recent sharing of Sylvia Plath poem, _Daddy_,
has shown me another rare female tantric fellow.
I was so taken, I made for her this links page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/Sylvia_Plath.htm

>From the 230 downloaded Syliva Plath poems, I did redblk -q
to get word frequency and picked these 42 interesting words
from the most frequent, then did a wh -r (KWIC) word study:
"black, white, love, green, red, blue, dead, light, eyes,
sea, water, eye, dark, sun, death, moon, heart, day, woman,
blood, stars, stone, whiteness, virgin, terrible, couch,
bones, blind, silver, pink, owl, kiss, gray, totem, soul,
birds, queen, flesh, narcissi*, mad, soliloquy, electra"

I have never seen so many colors rise to the top of a word
frequency list. So I left them in. Other words I studied
are either well known markers or need clarification in my
tantric breakdown of revelation. For example, birds is the
first metaphor that all male auto-erotic poets understand.
"Pretending that the birds are here to stay" suggests to me
that I will find husband Ted Hughes to be a tantric fellow.

For many mornings now I've worked down the kwic list, and
several times I found myself going "Wow!" as I open certain
poems, due to their metaphoric perfection. Her use of 'star'
is unambiguously, always, the male genital. So I shall have
to revise my form-wise understanding of it as possibly anus,
or held in most generality as spanning any genital, greatly
influencing my further study of metaphors in Revelation, in
which the seven stars ARE the angels of the seven churches.

I break off now to post. As I keep following the kwic terms
to their contexts, I can tell, and reviewed, and declare to
you, that in _Three Women_, the first voice is of a simple
female, the second an autocunnilingtress, and the third is
how a female finds herself vis-a-vis an autofellator (Ted?).

For a quick lexicon, vagina is abundantly RED!, blood, eye,
Pubes are BLACK!, dark, tree (bark). Testes/semen, sun. Her
own buttocks, the moon (in the inverted body position of AC),
and three-headed Cerebus is the treble male genital.

She perfectly clarifies the creation myth seeing pubes as a
spread cobra head, which I solved unsatisfyinging, although
workably, as phallus = snake. From her lit crit background,
she has signification pour from a penis, but her own female
set of symbols are necessary. Compare the weakness of males
trying to intersubjectively render AC (Cristabel, Graal).

Here is the list of poems I set aside as most vehement and
perfect, expositing our occult auto-erotic tantric domain,
sorted for your speedy reading from smallest to largest:

http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/maudlin.html
 Maudlin
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/contusion.html
 Contusion
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/glutton.html
 The Glutton
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/barren.html
 Barren Woman
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/childless.html
 Childless Woman
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/poppies.html
 Poopies in October
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/satan.html
 Sonnet to Satan
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/brasilia.html
 Brasilia
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/demon.html
 On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/crossing.html
 Crossing The Water
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/strumpetsong.html
 Strumpet Song
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/kindness.html
 Kindness
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/fearful.html
 The Fearful

I continue the URL list in part 2 of 2...

I hope some of you are Sylvia Plath scholars!

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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