In the Sylvia Plath movie with Gweneth Paltrow she recites a poem. The only parts of the poem I remember are:?

Question

"I shall do such things, what they are yet I know not" and at the end she says "and I still go crazy (or mad) I forget... Does anyone know the title of this poem? Thanks for any help..

Yes Mag999us that is it. Thanks so much.. and thanks Purdurabeo for the link I will look at it...

Answer 1

I believe this is the part you're referencing:
''If it be you that stir
these daughters' hearts...
''against their father,
''let not women's weapons,
water-drops,
stain my cheeks.!
- ''No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both...
- Faster!
''that all the world shall--
I will do such things--
- ''What they are, yet I know not,
but they shall be the terrors of the earth.
- Faster!
''You think I'll weep.
No, I'll not weep:
I'll have full cause of weeping:
but this heart shall break
into a hundred thousand flaws,
or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!''

This is William Shakespeare, from King Lear.

Answer 2

Here's the quote from the screenplay:

"It's-- and not like a--
a popgun or something.



- ''It was 'Din! Din! Din!'''
- It's a bomb.
It's like a bloody big bomb.



That's why they make children
learn them in school.



''Hitherao!
Water, get it.! Panee lao! ''



They don't want them messing about
with them on their own.



I mean,just imagine
if a sonnet went off accidentally.



Boom.



Drink.! Drink.!
Bollocks.



[ Laughing ]
Sylvia.



Come on, Sylvia.
Go on.Just get up.



[ Laughing ]
Give us some of your American poetry.
Go on.



''If it be you that stir
these daughters' hearts...



''against their father,



''let not women's weapons,
water-drops,
stain my cheeks.!



- ''No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both...
- Faster!



''that all the world shall--
I will do such things--



- ''What they are, yet I know not,
but they shall be the terrors of the earth.
- Faster!



''You think I'll weep.
No, I'll not weep:
I'll have full cause of weeping:



but this heart shall break
into a hundred thousand flaws,
or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!''



[ All Cheering ]
[ Tom ]
Come on, Ted.



''I know you all,
and will awhile uphold
the unyok'd humor of your idleness:



''Yet herein will I imitate the sun
who doth permit the base contagious clouds
to smother up his beauty from the world.



''That, when he please again to be himself,
being wanted, he may be more wondered at...



''by breaking through the foul and ugly mists
of vapors that did seem to strangle him.



Faster.
''If all the years were playing holiday,
to sport would be as tedious as to work:



''And when they seldom come,
they wish'd-for come,
and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.



''So, when this loose behavior I throw off
and pay the debt I never promised,



''by how much better than my word I am,
by so much shall I falsify men's hopes:



''And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,
my reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,
Faster.



''shall show more goodly
and attract more eyes
than that which hath no foil to set it off.



''I'll so offend to make offense a skill,



redeeming time
when men think least I will.''



[ Ted ]
You buggers.

She's quoting Shakespeare: King Lear:
"KING LEAR
O, reason not the need [deed]! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man [fellow],
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely [lamely]; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall--I will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep
No, I'll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!"

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I couldn't find it, but

http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/chrono.html

Is a bunch of Plath poems - fun to look through.

FP