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Crossing the Water par Sylvia Plath
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Crossing the Water (édition 1980)

par Sylvia Plath

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Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems - 'Childless Woman', 'Mirror', 'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent. 'Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.' Alan Brownjohn, New Statesman… (plus d'informations)
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"Mirror" stuck out to me the most, the others not so much. ( )
  Koralis | Jul 13, 2023 |
Some claim that the enormous interest in Sylvia Plath’s poetry has more to do with the drama of her life, marriage, and death than with the quality of the poetry itself. That may be true, but it says nothing about the quality. Crossing the Water is solid; unlike Winter Trees, the other volume that collects poems she left behind, not a single one seems unfinished. All are well-crafted yet seem less formal than those in her first collection, The Colossus. They abound in memorable lines and internal rhyme. Plath is a masterful observer of landscape, which not only abounds in life but in intimations of death. “Wuthering Heights,” the opening poem, begins: “The horizons ring me like faggots,” a menacing image. “If I pay the roots of heather / Too close attention, they will invite me / To whiten my bones among them.” The combination of landscape and death recurs in other poems, such as “I Am Vertical.” Another motif that appears more than once is “blue Mary,” along with other religious imagery. At times I felt that Plath was creating poems meant to be read together, as a set, rather than individual lyrics. While reading the book, I learned that some figured in her plan for the Ariel collection, but that Ted Hughes disregarded her intention when he issued it, both in the selection of poems and their order. I don’t intend to join Team Hughes or Team Plath, but I’m sorry he did this, whatever his reasons. Regardless, this is an excellent collection. ( )
  HenrySt123 | Mar 1, 2022 |
I always come back to 'In Plaster' and 'Mirror'. Such a stunning collection. It's not really fair to compare it to Ariel. It is where she was at that time. ( )
  CaseyRenee | Mar 21, 2017 |
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath is the collection between The Colossus and before the publication of Ariel, and it continues to push the envelop between dark and light. Plath has come to represent the dichotomy of dark and light in all of us, with our deep passions and desires that lie in tension with our duty to family and society. In this collection, the water becomes a metaphor for the surface veneer that many of us carry, but Plath examines how easily this surface can be shaken and disturbed.

In “Finisterre,” “Now it is only gloomy, a dump of rocks–/Leftover soldiers from old, messy wars./The sea cannons into their ear, but they don’t budge./Other rocks hide their grudges under the water.//” (page 15) Plath examines the aging process and the grudges carried from the past into the present and how that sullies the outside like the weathering of a rock face. The poem further flourishes into a series of worshiping people looking to that which is beyond themselves, particularly the larger “Lady of the Shipwrecked” who admires the sea as the man worships her and the peasant worships the sailor.

Read the full review: http://savvyverseandwit.com/2013/04/crossing-the-water-by-sylvia-plath.html ( )
  sagustocox | Apr 18, 2013 |
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Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems - 'Childless Woman', 'Mirror', 'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent. 'Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.' Alan Brownjohn, New Statesman

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