Yesterday was one of those Janus January days. Cloudy, windy, unseasonable warm and rainy in the morning, but by noon, the temperatures plummeted, the clouds pushed off and rain water froze seemingly instantly. I had to go to Logan Airport, and so I felt it would be a good day to use the new Ricoh Theta camera I got last month from Brandi.
And O!, was I glad I went. That blue sky is amazing... right out of "The Colossus": "A blue sky out of the Oresteia / Arches above us" (The Colossus, 1960, p. 20). Or, this recalls Plath's own visit to her father's grave from March 1959, written in her journals: "A clear blue day in Winthrop. Went to my father's grave, a very depressing sight" (The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 2000, p. 473). Plath mined this experience for use in The Bell Jar, published on this day 55 years ago in London. But she changed the scene from that which she recorded in her journals.
Here are the links to the Theta images:
The beach behind Johnson Avenue, showing Deer Island, Logan Airport, and Downtown Boston. This was the beach that Plath wrote about in her short story "The Green Rock" and her poem "Green Rock, Winthrop Bay".
92 Johnson Avenue, the Plath House!
The side of 92 Johnson Avenue, you can see some of the study windows Plath's mentioned in her poem "The Disquieting Muses".
Yirrell Beach, showing the Water Tower, taking from the walking trail that goes around the perimeter of Dear Island.
892 Shirley Street, the house of Aurelia and Francis Schober, Plath's maternal grandparents.
Yirrell Beach, showing the Water Tower again, and the beach, and a bit of Dear Island.
Winthrop Cemetery
Otto Plath's grave, #1
Otto Plath's grave, #2
Many of these images look really cool in the "Little Planet" view. Don't you think? I know, I know, I should be editing the Volume 2 letters and I am. Just taking a little break to write you!
All links accessed 14 January 2018.
And O!, was I glad I went. That blue sky is amazing... right out of "The Colossus": "A blue sky out of the Oresteia / Arches above us" (The Colossus, 1960, p. 20). Or, this recalls Plath's own visit to her father's grave from March 1959, written in her journals: "A clear blue day in Winthrop. Went to my father's grave, a very depressing sight" (The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 2000, p. 473). Plath mined this experience for use in The Bell Jar, published on this day 55 years ago in London. But she changed the scene from that which she recorded in her journals.
Here are the links to the Theta images:
The beach behind Johnson Avenue, showing Deer Island, Logan Airport, and Downtown Boston. This was the beach that Plath wrote about in her short story "The Green Rock" and her poem "Green Rock, Winthrop Bay".
92 Johnson Avenue, the Plath House!
The side of 92 Johnson Avenue, you can see some of the study windows Plath's mentioned in her poem "The Disquieting Muses".
Yirrell Beach, showing the Water Tower, taking from the walking trail that goes around the perimeter of Dear Island.
892 Shirley Street, the house of Aurelia and Francis Schober, Plath's maternal grandparents.
Yirrell Beach, showing the Water Tower again, and the beach, and a bit of Dear Island.
Winthrop Cemetery
Otto Plath's grave, #1
Otto Plath's grave, #2
Many of these images look really cool in the "Little Planet" view. Don't you think? I know, I know, I should be editing the Volume 2 letters and I am. Just taking a little break to write you!
All links accessed 14 January 2018.