The album undeniably makes reference to Sylvia Plath. There's just no way that it doesn't. It alludes to her suicide attempts and in the song Sylvia, the lyrics "Sylvia, get your head out of the oven" clearly makes that unarguable.
Now I think the album uses Plath and situations with her as well as situations not necessarily associated with her to create this other meaning about a couple and blah blah blah you know the rest.
I connected this song to Plath's suicide attempts because I was not able to make very specific conclusions about the story with the couple and whatnot, although they are surely there.
"Pull me out
Pull me out
Can't you stop this all from happening?
Close the doors and keep them out"
I think the above refers to her suicide, in which she stuck her head in the oven and turned on the gas. She sealed the doors with rags and whatnot so that the gas wouldn't get to her children ("close the doors and keep them out"). It was also speculated that Plath really had just become a cry for help, hence the "pull me out pull me out can't you stop this all from happening"
The second verse has pretty much already been spoken of. The whole thing with the overdose while being buried under the house and whatnot.
One, oh my god this album is GREAT.
The album undeniably makes reference to Sylvia Plath. There's just no way that it doesn't. It alludes to her suicide attempts and in the song Sylvia, the lyrics "Sylvia, get your head out of the oven" clearly makes that unarguable.
Now I think the album uses Plath and situations with her as well as situations not necessarily associated with her to create this other meaning about a couple and blah blah blah you know the rest.
I connected this song to Plath's suicide attempts because I was not able to make very specific conclusions about the story with the couple and whatnot, although they are surely there.
"Pull me out Pull me out Can't you stop this all from happening? Close the doors and keep them out"
I think the above refers to her suicide, in which she stuck her head in the oven and turned on the gas. She sealed the doors with rags and whatnot so that the gas wouldn't get to her children ("close the doors and keep them out"). It was also speculated that Plath really had just become a cry for help, hence the "pull me out pull me out can't you stop this all from happening"
The second verse has pretty much already been spoken of. The whole thing with the overdose while being buried under the house and whatnot.