| The Antlers – Sylvia (An Introduction) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The entire album isn't just about Sylvia the former lover or Sylvia the patient. There are references all over the place to Sylvia Plath and her (semi-autobiographical) novel, The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath ended up taking he life by sticking her head in the oven, an event referenced in this song, Thirteen, and Sylvia. In Plath's novel, her fictional counterpart crawled under the basement of her mother's house before attempting to overdose on sleeping pills and almost succeeded in killing herself before she was discovered by her mother. "It's all connected In those complicated nightmares that you wove" This might just be a reference to Sylvia Plath writing her descent into depression in The Bell Jar and how she and the character Esther Greenwood are actually connected. The nightmarish perceptions that Greenwood experiences are actually Plath's own experiences. |
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