Jan 9, 2009

Ariel | Ariel

At a glance:

Author: Sylvia Plath
First Published: 1965
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Gender roles, England or English people, Fathers, Death or dying, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Edible plants, Horses, Animals, Racing, Horsemanship, Berries

Form and Content

Ariel, Sylvia Plath’s most celebrated book of poetry, is credited as the first collection of poems in which Plath finds her unique voice. The forty-three poems are bound together by an overwhelming sense of urgency and common themes. Some scholars consider Plath to be one of the few poets to address the traditional female world without being trite, obvious, or unimportant. Even those who discount the content of her work as self-indulgent praise her marvelous use of language, her mastery of rhythm and use of sound, and her unusual sense of...

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Ariel | Ariel

At a glance:

Form and Content

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