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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ariel, the collection of poems I read this week, was a book I found at Half-Priced Books, along with some other works by Plath. I have been interested in Sylvia Plath's novel and writings since I was in high school. I was a little afraid that I might have tended towards The Bell Jar in high school because it just SPOKE to me, and that I would be disappointed in this collection. I sincerely hope that is not the case, because I plan to re-read The Bell Jar this year as an adult, but I must admit, I wasn't impressed with Ariel. Some of the poems were wonderful, but most of them weren't my style. On the other hand, you can tell that Plath was severely depressed as she wrote them, and they certainly broke my heart that such a bright mind could succumb to such a dark place. It truly can effect anyone, and Plath was no exception. I've just finished reading this collection of poetry, but it is hard to put into words how I feel about it. I very much enjoyed many of the early poems in this volume for their treatment of feminist themes, mythological feeling, and careful use of language, but I got very bogged down in the middle parts of the collection before ending on a high note with "Words." Considering the context in which Plath wrote this collection (during the 9 months prior to her dealth by suicide, and seemingly at a high point of her marital conflict with Ted Hughes) it is not wonder that much of the language evokes altermnating tones of violence and the drudgery of life. I don't know if I would make the entire collection a recommendation, but some of the poems are surely not to be missed. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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When her submission for the Yale Younger Poets contest (a collection that predated Colossus) failed to win the prize, she journaled: “How ironic, that all my work to overcome my easy poeticisms merely convinces them that I am rough, anti-poetic, unpoetic. My God” (found in Heather Clark, Red Comet, page 563).
This strikes me as the typical dilemma of a gifted poet. The essential first step is immersion in the tradition, which you must break free of to find your own voice. The work in the transition phase may be less pleasing than that of the apprenticeship. I wonder whether, if Plath’s suicide had been thwarted, we’d think of both Colossus and Ariel as products of her journeyman phase, on the way to the mastery I believe she was capable of?
In these years, Plath had the mixed blessing of her own live-in model, tutor, and rival, Ted Hughes. He challenged and encouraged her in her development. But the price was that she shook off the voice of models such as Theodore Roethke to take on the voice of Hughes, which is what some of the less successful poems here strike me as showing. Nevertheless, when I leaf through the collection again, I find much to admire here. ( )