Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Ariel

Sylvia Plath * Track #12 On Ariel

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Ariel by Sylvia Plath

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Ariel was the name of one of Plath’s favorite horses. In the introduction to the restored edition of Ariel, her daughter Frieda explains that this is what her mother had told her.

In this poem, we see a vivid description of the speaker, presumably Plath, riding horseback, enjoying and deriving spir...

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Ariel Annotated

Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.

God's lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!--The furrow

Splits and passes, sister to
The brown arc
Of the neck I cannot catch,

Nigger-eye
Berries cast dark
Hooks----

Black sweet blood mouthfuls,
Shadows.
Something else

Hauls me through air----
Thighs, hair;
Flakes from my heels.

White
Godiva, I unpeel----
Dead hands, dead stringencies.

And now I
Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas.
The child's cry

Melts in the wall.
And I
Am the arrow,

The dew that flies,
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red

Eye, the cauldron of morning.

Ariel Q&A

Who wrote Ariel's ?

Ariel was written by Sylvia Plath.

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