Ariel - Sylvia Plath

Ariel - Sylvia Plath: Plath's best poems in the one collection (455 words)
by Katie_Kitten - written on 19.03.03 (Very useful, 247 readings)
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It can be argued that Sylvia Plath was one of the most influential female poets of the twentieth century. Her story stirs up lots of emotion and feminist feeling and a lot of this is due to the poems she wrote in her most famous work 'Ariel'. It contains a total of 40 poems, including her most famous works such as 'Daddy' and each of these poems is an outpouring of emotion about issues, which had been troubling her throughout her life. Sylvia Plath was born into a middle class family in Massachusetts USA in 1932 and was an ideal student - popular and succeeding academically, winning many scholarships. Her life was turned upside down when she was ...

Dying, is an art - like everything else (464 words)
by joolzroolz - written on 14.06.01 (Very useful, 899 readings)
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Sylvia Plath is too often passed off as 'that crazy woman who wrote poems about dying and stuck her head in an oven'. Her 'Ariel' poems are the last she wrote before she died and acclaimed as her most brilliant works. There are not that many poems in the volume, although any more would be too many, as each piece has so much potential that it makes for a heavy read. Plath has managed to produce in 'Ariel' very powerful verses, infused with deep feeling, whilst remaining economical with words. There is no verbal 'padding' to be found here - no wasting of ink. There is hardly a letter in the poems that does not serve some ...

Ariel - Sylvia Plath: The only Plath worth having (267 words)
by number63 - written on 12.12.00 (Very useful, 169 readings)
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'Ariel' is Sylvia Plath's best-known collection, and, quite simply, her best work. Not that this is saying much, unfortunately. A lot of Plath's early work is, to put it bluntly, not very good, and it is unfortunate for her that her death came so tragically early, because in this, her last collection, there are a handful of poems that are amongst the most moving and beautiful ever written. Sadly, the rest don't compare. The real tragedy of Plath is not so much her death itself, but that it came at a time when she was just beginning to find her voice as a poet of great strength and character. Poems like 'Edge', 'Morning Song', ...