January 10, 2004 – 12:33 pm
I wonder if, with regard to his piece in the new Listener magazine on the New Zealand film-maker Christine Jeff’s soon-to-be-released movie about acclaimed (by predominantly, though not exclusively, young women) poet Sylvia Plath – as portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow – and its own poetic licence about the events of the author’s life, relationship with fellow poet – later to be Poet Laureate – Ted Hughes and her suicide, as well as the revisiting of the film-maker’s favourite motif and wellspring – if you’ll excuse the pun – of rich symbolism – water – Philip Matthews could possibly be more – for I scarcely believe he could… even given the considerable length of the article – parenthetical, fragmented and confusing.
Yeah, all right – maybe he could.