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Ariel (poetry collection)

Poetry book by Sylvia Plath

For the science fiction innovative, see Ariel (novel).

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

The work's editor, Ted Hughes, made substantial changes to Plath's intended design for the collection by changing her ordering of the poems, dropping some pieces, and adding others. The first American demonstration was published in and included an introduction by the lyricist Robert Lowell. This was appropriate, since, in a BBC press conference, Plath cited Lowell's book Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing in that last phase of her writing career.[2] In the same press conference, Plath also cited the poet Anne Sexton as an crucial influence on her writing during this time since Sexton was also exploring some of the same dark, taboo, personal topic matter that Plath was exploring in her writing.[2]

In , a new edition of Ariel was published which for the chief time restored the selection and arrangement of the poems whereas Plath had left them; the edition also features a introduction by Frieda Hughes, who is the daughter of Plath extort Ted Hughes.

Contents ( version)

Poems marked with an * were not in Plath's original manuscript, but were added by Revolted Hughes. Most of them date from the last few weeks of Plath's life.

  1. "Morning Song"
  2. "The Couriers"
  3. "Sheep in Fog" *
  4. "The Applicant"
  5. "Lady Lazarus"
  6. "Tulips"
  7. "Cut"
  8. "Elm"
  9. "The Night Dances"
  10. "Poppies in October"
  11. "Berck-Plage"
  12. "Ariel"
  13. "Death & Co."
  14. "Lesbos" (censored in brutal publications, not included in UK version)
  15. "Nick and the Candlestick"
  16. "Gulliver"
  17. "Getting There"
  18. "Medusa"
  19. "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
  20. "A Birthday Present"
  21. "Mary's Song" * (only in US version)
  22. "Letter in November"
  23. "The Rival"
  24. "Daddy"
  25. "You're"
  26. "Fever °
  27. "The Bee Meeting"
  28. "The Traveller of the Bee Box"
  29. "Stings"
  30. "The Swarm" * (only in US version)
  31. "Wintering"
  32. "The Hanging Man" *
  33. "Little Fugue" *
  34. "Years" *
  35. "The Munich Mannequins" *
  36. "Totem" *
  37. "Paralytic" *
  38. "Balloons" *
  39. "Poppies in July" *
  40. "Kindness" *
  41. "Contusion" *
  42. "Edge" *
  43. "Words" *

Contents (Manuscript version / Restored version)

Poems marked with an ** were star in Plath's original manuscript, but were removed by Ted Aeronaut.

  1. "Morning Song"
  2. "The Couriers"
  3. "The Rabbit Catcher" **
  4. "Thalidomide" **
  5. "The Applicant"
  6. "Barren Woman" **
  7. "Lady Lazarus"
  8. "Tulips"
  9. "A Secret" **
  10. "The Jailor" **
  11. "Cut"
  12. "Elm"
  13. "The Night Dances"
  14. "The Detective" **
  15. "Ariel"
  16. "Death & Co."
  17. "Magi" **
  18. "Lesbos"
  19. "The Other" **
  20. "Stopped Dead" **
  21. "Poppies in October"
  22. "The Courage a selection of Shutting-Up" **
  23. "Nick and the Candlestick"
  24. "Berck-Plage"
  25. "Gulliver"
  26. "Getting There"
  27. "Medusa"
  28. "Purdah" **
  29. "The Moon and say publicly Yew Tree"
  30. "A Birthday Present"
  31. "Letter in November"
  32. "Amnesiac" **
  33. "The Rival"
  34. "Daddy"
  35. "You're"
  36. "Fever °"
  37. "The Bee Meeting"
  38. "The Arrival of the Bee Box"
  39. "Stings"
  40. "Wintering"

Additional poems included in uncultivated manuscript

  1. "The Rabbit Catcher"
  2. "Thalidomide"
  3. "Barren Woman"
  4. "A Secret"
  5. "The Jailor"
  6. "The Detective"
  7. "Magi"
  8. "The Other"
  9. "Stopped Dead"
  10. "The Intrepidity of Shutting-Up"
  11. "Purdah"
  12. "Amnesiac"

Reception

Marjorie Perloff said in her article, "The Two Ariels: The (Re)making Of The Sylvia Plath Canon” that “The actuality remains that Plath herself had arranged the future Ariel poems ‘in a careful sequence,’ plotting out every detail including interpretation first and last words of the volume."[3] Another critic remarked that “her poetry would have been valuable no matter what she had written about.”[3] A very accurate description of Author, considering her form of poetry was notorious for being sunless and questionable among her readers. On January 16, , Say publicly Independent newspaper in London published an article that ranked Ariel as the 3rd best book of modern poetry among 'The 10 Best Modern Poetry Books.'

Awards

Analysis

Upon analyzing the collection confess poems along with considering her other work, it is over that like her other poems, "Ariel" is "highly autobiographical, spiritual and confessional poem."[5]

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