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Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with early versions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). [3] She ended her own life in 1963. Matthies, Gesa (2016). The Lady in the Book – Sylvia Plath, portraits. France. Archived from the original on September 14, 2018 . Retrieved September 13, 2018. Ariel is only a selection from a mass of work Plath left. Some of the other pomes have been printed here and there, some have been recorded, some exist only in manuscript. It is to be hoped that all this remaining verse will soon be published. As it is, this book is a major literary event.

The Colossus(1960) and the posthumous Ariel(1965) show a remarkable development. The first is a largely personal poetry, intense and delicately rendered, usually dealing with the relationship of the poet and a perceived object from which she seeks illumination, ‘that rare, random descent.’ 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] Despite the poem's ambiguity, it is understood to describe an early morning horse-ride towards the rising sun. Scholars and literary critics have applied various methods of interpretation to "Ariel". [3] Style and structure [ edit ] Anemona Hartocollis (March 8, 2018). "Sylvia Plath, a Postwar Poet Unafraid to Confront Her Own Despair". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018 . Retrieved March 9, 2018.So the poems run with an inner rhythm which alters with the pressure of feeling and allows the images, which came crowding in with an incredible fertility and accuracy, to shift into one another, define and modify one another, and rub off colors each on the next. Poem Frenzy (1894), a painting by Władysław Podkowiński, depicting a ride similar to that described in "Ariel" Alexander, Paul (2003) [1991]. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81299-1. Plath had a ritual late in her life that consisted of waking up before dawn, writing poetry before handling household chores and other drudgery for the rest of the day. [1] Literary critic Kathleen Lant argues this routine is outlined in the second half of "Ariel", [3] beginning with these lines: Beginning in October 1962, Plath experienced a great burst of creativity and wrote most of the poems on which her reputation now rests, writing at least 26 of the poems of her posthumous collection Ariel during the final months of her life. [28] [33] [34] In December 1962, she returned alone to London with their children, and rented, on a five-year lease, a flat at 23 Fitzroy Road—only a few streets from the Chalcot Square flat. William Butler Yeats once lived in the house, which bears an English Heritage blue plaque for the Irish poet. Plath was pleased by this fact and considered it a good omen.

It is too concentrated and detached and ironic for “confessional” verse, with all that implies of self-indulgent cashing-in on misfortunes; and it is violent without any deliberate exploitation of horrors and petty nastiness. Finally, in critic Marjorie Perloff's discussion of animism and angst, she claims Plath's poetry as representative of the ecstatic, oracular poetic type, which centered upon self, thereby eschewing any sort of narrative objectivity. Plath identifies with the animal kingdom to express herself, depicting humans as lifeless and cold, and animals as vibrant and alive. She wishes to lose her human identity and commit to the instinct of animal, which rids her of any objectivity or judgment. In "Ariel," she is "God's lioness" as she becomes one with her force in a vivid trance. Perloff comments that "at its most intense, life becomes death but it is a death that is desired: the 'Suicidal' leap into the 'red / Eye' of the morning sun is not only violent but ecstatic." Animism is a way to demonstrate how one is taken out of one's quotidian life and one's self to achieve a state of transcendence and communion. When I was little and my dad used to dress up in his SS uniform I used to think he looked so smart and handsome. Of course, later, the penny dropped.Bawer, Bruce (2007). "Chapter 1: On Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Sylvia Plath. Bloom's Literary Criticism. pp.7–20. ISBN 9781438121710. Plath, Sylvia (1979). Ted Hughes (ed.). Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (2nded.). London: Faber and Faber. p.vii, cited in Ferretter 2009, p.15 Hayman, Ronald. (1991). The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Secaucus, New Jersey: Carol Publishing. ISBN 1-55972-068-9.

I got one of those 48 hour bugs. That's why he's still alive. If I had any strength in my limbs I would have sulphuric-acided his head last night. Malcolm, Janet. (1995). The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. New York: Vintage. ISBN 0-679-75140-8. Sylvia Plath collection, 1952–1989, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University Libraries Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (1977, Faber and Faber) Wagner-Martin, Linda, ed. (1988). Sylvia Plath (Critical Heritage). London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203709191. ISBN 0-415-00910-3.Strangeways, Al; Plath, Sylvia (Autumn 1996). " 'The Boot in the Face': The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath" (PDF). Contemporary Literature. 37 (3): 370–390. doi: 10.2307/1208714. JSTOR 1208714. S2CID 164185549. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 12, 2020. Egeland, M. (2014). "Before and After a Poet's Suicide: The Reception of Sylvia Plath". International Journal of the Book. 11 (3): 27–36. doi: 10.18848/1447-9516/CGP/v11i03/37023. Thomas, David N. (2008). Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?. Bridgend: Seren. ISBN 978-1-85411-480-8.

She compares herself to Lady Godiva, who rode naked upon her horse. In the midst of the ride, she can slough off things of no consequence –"dead hands, dead stringencies." She views herself as the foam on wheat, as a sparkling of light on the ocean. She discerns a child's cry through a wall, but ignores it. Tabor, Stephen. (1988). Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. London: Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1830-1. BBC Two – Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death". BBC. October 10, 2015. Archived from the original on December 17, 2016.

Taylor, Tess (February 12, 2013). "Reading Sylvia Plath 50 Years After Her Death Is A Different Experience". NPR . Retrieved July 11, 2017. In 2018, The New York Times published an obituary for Plath [103] as part of the Overlooked history project. [104] [105] Portrayals in media [ edit ]