I love Plath! And Frankenstein! I've also read both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights! 🙂 I loved studying texts in English at school. A lot of the time we got to study books/poets that I had already read and loved, and often analysing them made me love them more and greater appreciate them!
I really like and agree with your view on monsters, and it's something that I thought of more when I read Frankenstein. It's interesting, because we fear what we don't know or understand, which I guess is important and useful in our survival, but so much fear in this world (leading to dislike/hatred/negative perceptions), arises from this fear of the unknown. Even mere external differences, like skin colour, or religious practice, or the fact that something is small and eight-legged (hahaha). We (humans) are in this constant quest for progress, and gaining knowledge and understanding, but so many don't try and take the time to understand each other!
I also really enjoyed reading the things you wrote! Like Mary, I like your use of metaphors. I remember it was at one of my lowest moments with depression that I wrote my first poem that wasn't for school haha, and since then I've written a bit, whenever I feel like I need to.
I think I may get a little of how you feel about posting on other threads to help people? (or I'm way off!) It's something that I had a lot of trouble with, worrying that I would say the wrong thing/make things worse (because that's always what seems to happen when I try to help in any situation hahaha), and just thinking - who am I to offer support and love and 'advice' when I've gone through barely anything, to think I can even help, to say that I understand how it feels when really, I will never know?... But I know that if I were the person, I would appreciate anything, and just knowing someone has heard me would mean so much!
