Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas. Melts in the wall. Eye, the cauldron of morning. First published in Ariel, 1965. Reprinted in The Collected Poems, 1981. Copyright Credit: Sylvia Plath, “Ariel” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981 by the Estate of Sylvia Plath. Editorial matter copyright © 1981 by Ted Hughes.

Ariel is Sylvia Plath 's second collection of poetry. It was first released in 1965, two years after her death by suicide. The poems of Ariel, with their free-flowing images and characteristically menacing psychic landscapes, marked a dramatic turn from Plath's earlier Colossus poems. [1]

‘ Ariel ‘ by Sylvia Plath describes the terror of a wild horseback ride and the mental and emotional transformation that the rider and the speaker go through as she faces death.

Ariel is the name of the spirit in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. Ariel’s story is significant in terms of his imprisonment by Prospero and subsequent release, and his supernatural abilities...

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" Ariel " is a poem written by the American poet Sylvia Plath. It was written on her thirtieth birthday, October 27, 1962, [1] and published posthumously in the collection Ariel in 1965. [2]

Poem Ariel by Sylvia Plath : Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God's lion...

2025年2月19日 · Ariel is a collection of poetry by American writer Sylvia Plath, published in 1965 after Plath’s death in 1963. Welcomed at the time as a major literary event, the volume contains some of Plath’s best-known poems, including ‘Daddy’ and ‘Lady Lazarus.’

2025年2月1日 · Female Liberation and Defiance: Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” is a powerful exploration of female emancipation, using movement as a metaphor for breaking free from societal expectations.

Part of the Confessional movement, alongside her contemporaries Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton, Plath's work in Ariel is intensely personal. The darkly lyric poems address motherhood, sexuality, marriage, and her own experiences with depression.