Poetry Blog #1

It is hard to pick one poet out of three very different and unique people. I seem to have a combination of all their lives? Margaret Atwood seems too feminist for me to say that i am most like her. However, there is a similarity in that i too must speak up for my beliefs. I may not be as strong a feminist as she is, but if there is a time when women are looked down upon, i too must actively defend the women's side.
Even though i am like Atwood in some aspects, i feel that i can relate the most with Emily dickinson and Sylvia Plath. From reading Emily dickinson's biography, i feel i too am a sensitive person who gets very personal. Although not a hermit, not has my mother been confined to her bed with me caring, i feel that i can relate to her sense of isolation. Although she has brothers and sisters, she seemed to have gone through a time of isolation from the society which i can relate too. Being an only child for me gave me the greatest feeling of isolation. When i was in Sweden, there were not many Korean kids around me. I used to feel so 'out of place' that as a kid, i went through a time of a bit of depression? I would feel like the monkey in a zoo because wherever i went, i would be starred at. When i was in first grade, one girl in my class would tell me to always
'go back to your country.' Her words really hurt me even though we were young. i felt the need and desire to isolate myself from their culture and their society. I guess reading about Emily dickinson's life as well as Sylvia Plath's life made me think back to my days of darkness.
According to a biography of Sylvia Plath, it says "Thus, even then, Plath was expressing her antithetical attitudes toward existence, embracing life and rejecting it simultaneously." After i read this i could totally relate to this. There are so many times when i find myself very capricious? One day embracing life and then the next day rejecting it. This is so common as i survive each day of high school ! And that is why i feel i am most like Emily dickinson and Sylvia Plath.