The Bell jar

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I’m not Sylvia Plath
I’m not Sylvia Plath
I’m not Sylvia Plath
I’m not Sylvia Plath
I’m not Sylvia Plath
Well… I’m not!
I don’t want to live in a Bell Jar

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I read one of her books, I forget the name, she is gloomy and doomy lol

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I had to look that up. Apparently they also made a movie of the book.

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I think it was about a girl in 50s or 60s America

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I believe that its her novel "The Bell Jar " which is about being on meds and not being able to feel. Like living in a Bell Jar.

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I think so, if I remember the book correctly she’s been committed to a psych unit but I might think of another book

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No that is the one I’m talking about. I read it three years ago, but a friend of Mine just reminded me of it, when I was complaining about the meds and the feeling of being inside a Bell Jar.

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Well I want to feel something even if that something is anxiety or even paranoia, for if i’m able to feel, I might also feel joy and curiousity once again.

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I read it a few years ago. I thought the bell jar was in reference to a lab, she or her boyfriend took. Can’t really remember it now.

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She felt suffocated by madness, as if in a bell jar and couldn’t connect with people.

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What the hell is a bell jar anyways?

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I take it that a Bell Jar is something that isolates you and disconectes you from the rest of the world.

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Oh I love Sylvia Plath. I think the Bell Jar is one of my fav. books of hers. I relate because of manic depression and the feeling of pressure–she felt as being a perfect woman in those times, was a lot more pressure on woman to fit into social norms. Super intense book; she’s really dark.

I like feminist and female authors a lot. I like Adrienne Rich. Adrienne Rich | Poetry Foundation

Some of the few books I’ve read were from famous female authors. I read Jane Eyre, also super depressing and dark but hopeful and optimistic. I would love to write more poems that are in the style of the brooding melancholy and less of my abstract crazy poems.

I’m definitely not Sylvia Plath–although expression and writing heals and helps me when I am sad.

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The Bell Jar doesn’t ring
Inside of it, you get so isolated that there is No reality
Lots of thoughts but No feelings.
What do you do when the Bell Jar turns into a prison?

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yeah. She made it ready to be like her, though.

I think it shouldn’t be something adhered to, but it was her own.

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I don’t think she was a happy person. She committed suicide didn’t she?

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Yes I believe she did.

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@anon69073975 I don’t know Adrienne Rich but I’m sure I’m gonna chek her out

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