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	Neurotic Poets: Sylvia Plath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In early 1956 Plath learned that her grandmother in America had stomach cancer, and she herself suffered with insomnia and sinus infections as her writing was rejected from publication after publication while what was published was receiving poor reviews.
		Plath was enthralled by the moors and she continued to write stories, articles, and poems, like "November Graveyard".
		Despite a severe case of flu in mid-October, Plath seemed to be coping with the immense stress of the breakup of her marriage by writing poetry at a phenomenal pace.
	www.neuroticpoets.com /plath (5373 words)

	Sylvia Plath \| Comments about "Ariel" \| poetry archive \| plagiarist.com
		Plath wrote that poem at a time she had already suffered enough—nervous breakdown, an appendectomy, two births, a miscarriage, disintegrating marriage, continual economic pressure.
		Plath wants to give us the impression that the speaker is flying on a horse and that she wants to get away from this world.
		And while it would appear that Plath was an advocate of flight from the literal reality and representation of the world, it is also obvious that she encompasses and expresses far more complex emotions as the poet and as the differing "I" of her poems than a simple desire to give in to death.
	plagiarist.com /poetry/1377/comments (1158 words)

	On "Ariel"
		To treat "Ariel" as a confessional poem is to suggest that its actual importance lies in the horse- ride taken by its author, in the author's psychological problems, or in its position within the biographical development of the author.
		And here Plath is forced - by the desire of her speaker to assert herself, to move and fly - to appropriate an inappropriate figure for her speaker's flight: the speaker of "Ariel" becomes an arrow.
		In "Ariel," Plath demonstrates the consequences for the female artist of such proud and self-affirming desires when these desires are couched in the only symbolic structures available to her.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/plath/ariel.htm (4757 words)

	Ariel Redux - The latest chapter in the Sylvia Plath controversy. By Meghan O'Rourke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Plath began to put together the manuscript that became the framework for Ariel in late 1961 or early 1962, fussing with it and changing the title from The Rival to A Birthday Present to Daddy to The Rabbit Catcher and finally to Ariel and Other Poems.
		Plath was still, as Hughes himself later said, a little afraid of her own poems, still learning how to wean herself from exposition in favor of dramatic immersion.
		Plath was sharp-eyed and averse to platitudes, and it's not clear why she would have suppressed the work that was emerging in her final two weeks of life, or even have saved it for a new book, given that she was an inveterate reviser of her own manuscripts.
	slate.msn.com /id/2110754 (1188 words)

	Sylvia Plath: Ariel (The Restored Edition)
		My mother had described her Ariel manuscript as beginning with the word "Love" and ending with the word "Spring", and it was clearly geared to cover the ground from just before the break-up of the marriage to the resolution of a new life, with all the agonies and furies in between.
		Plath may be caricatured as a doom-laden depressive, but that makes the mistake of imposing the vision of her very last poems on earlier work.
		Plath muß ihre eigenen Gedichte laut gelesen haben, um ihren Klang in der Luft zu verfolgen.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /080405.html (10312 words)

	Free Essays on Ariel By Sylvia Plath
		Plath did not see the rebirth process as a pleasant experience, but one that is expected of her "I guess you could say I've got a call" (Plath 245).
		In "Ariel" she is possessed by and in possession of the instant when the word is incarnated, when the world becomes a vision of energy unfettered by mortal substance, and in Plath's development as a poet, freed from the carnal sting.
		Plath's genius can be fully viewed in the Ariel poems; it was not the experiences that wrote the poems but rather the "true poet" that wrote them.
	www.123student.com /2714.htm (1271 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| ARIEL by Sylvia Plath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		First published in England in 1964, and in the United States a year later, Ariel was, in the words of then-editor Frances McCullough, "a sensation." The impact of these poems in England and America alike was astonishing.
		Perhaps the most famous, still, of the Ariel poems are "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy," and those that present a sensitive young woman battling the forces of society and her own demons to achieve an imaginative transformation determined solely by herself.
		Grappling with both the minutiae of daily life and historical and mythic grandeur, these poems seem to be an attempt to raise existence--and the poet herself--to a new level of transcendence and intensity.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/ariel.asp (560 words)

	Sylvia Plath Forum: Review of Ariel: the Restored Edition
		It was soon thought that the entire meaning of Ariel not, in fact, dour, but that her order of poems explicitly lead to, through and from a kind of living hell to re-birth.
		The last line of Plath's arrangement of poems was from "Wintering", the wonderful conclusion to her five poem symphony on bees: "The bees are flying.
		Ariel was one of the most important poetry collections of the 20th century and will no doubt make a grand mark on the 21st as well.
	www.sylviaplathforum.com /reviews/ariel-restored.html (1279 words)

	LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- In Through the Out Door
		However, Plath is careful to make the reader aware that this is a “substanceless” color which she views, for there are still rocky peaks and great distances in the world she now occupies.
		Plath brilliantly draws this spiritual connection between her and Ariel to the physical connection of the horse and rider.
		Plath is transforming out of physical self and into “a glitter of seas,” or a spiritual body that can move rapidly in its own medium, taking the shape of any container it is placed into, as a liquid does.
	www.literatureclassics.com /showessayprint.asp?IDNo=420 (1224 words)

	Ariel by Sylvia Plath, R. Lowell
		Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by "hardly a person at all...
		Ariel by Sylvia Plath is my favorite volume of poetry, so when I heard Frieda Hughes was editing a restored edition of her mother's second full-length collection, I was thrilled.
		Plath probably used this line in reference to her ongoing game (for lack of a more sophisticated word) with death.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Ariel-0060133589.htm (1335 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ariel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, masterworks Robert Lowell describes as written by "hardly a person at all...but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines." Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known.
		It is clear from the outset that Plath sets out to present a balanced and almost comprehensive outlook on life; it's ups and its downs, its triumphs and its failures, and, in what is a rather excellent book of poetry (with a few fairly minor flaws) Plath has achieved just that.
		Ariel allows you a small window into Plath's life-long journey towards the EXCITEMENT of death and the beauty and misery of that journey.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571086268 (1088 words)

	Ariel - Sylvia Plath - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		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.
		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...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/ariel-sylvia-plath (414 words)

	[minstrels] Ariel -- Sylvia Plath
		A terrifying record of her encroaching mental illness, the poems that were collected after her suicide (at age 31) in 1963 in the volumes Ariel, Crossing the Water, and Winter Trees are graphically macabre, hallucinatory in their imagery, but full of ironic wit, technical brilliance, and tremendous emotional power.
		The horse, Ariel, is the vehicle, the current of life that is chaotic and forceful at first that "hauls" her "through air." Then we slowly realize that we are, perhaps, at the mercy of this seemingly chaotic yet natural Life Force.
		It is not (like a lot of people think), a projection of Plath's own course in life since she did end up putting her head in an oven.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/129.html (840 words)

	Ariel: The Restored Edition, Ms. Sylvia Plath - HarperAcademic
		Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim.
		In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath’s manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem, "Ariel," in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems.
		With this publication, Sylvia Plath's legacy and vision will be re-evaluated in the light of her original working draft.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060732598 (208 words)

	3quarksdaily: Plath, Hughes, and Ariel (Again)
		Hughes did a good job of editing Plath, but that does not explain why he thought he was entitled to do so.
		This new round in the Plath-Hughes debate seems to leave out some essential questions: whether any good editor would have fought to bring out the best in Plath, and whether it is ever acceptable to make fundamental changes to the posthumous work of a major writer, since they're not around to OK the final results.
		Granted that in Plath's case it was far too late for the latter, Hughes fundamentally confused the two things, and the conceptions of improving and overruling Plath cannot be separated in this case, anymore than Hughes' fastidious editing can be separated from his often condescending introductions to her work.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2004/12/plath_hughes_an.html (265 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ariel: The Restored Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is the fully restored version of Sylvia Plath's classic text and includes notes and extra material published for the first time.
		We finally have Ariel as Sylvia Plath intended it - the poems in the order left in her fl ring binder in 1963.
		I have read Plath inside out and backwards, and intermittently for eight years (I discovered her at the age of 22).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/057122685X (972 words)

	In Through the Out Door -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Plath is very aware of the two interacting worlds at play here.
		“The furrow splits and passes,” indicative of the physical world removing itself while she tries to possess the spiritual world, represented by “the neck [she] cannot catch.” Again, Plath interplays her embodied ride with Ariel to her disembodied spiritual transformation.
		As in The Tempest, Ariel is released in the epilogue after he has served Prospero’s efforts.
	www.classicsnetwork.com /essays/420 (1189 words)

	Sylvia Plath Homepage
		On February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath killed herself with cooking gas at the age of 30.
		Two years later Ariel, a collection of some of her last poems, was published; this was followed by Crossing the Water and Winter Trees in 1971, and, in 1981, The Collected Poems appeared, edited by Ted Hughes.
		In this compelling autobiographical novel, a milestone in contemporary literature, Sylvia Plath chronicles her teenage years - her disappointments, anger, depression and eventual breakdown and treatment - with stunning wit and devastating honesty.
	www.sylviaplath.de (1017 words)

	Sylvia Plath: 656 + 230 SURF links: plath sylvia poems hughes poetry life help books poem poet book black blue air ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I first heard of Sylvia Plath on the Thomas Pynchon forum, here; and I replied about my recognition of her, here.
		Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker: Two women writers challenge society's conspiracy against women.
		Criticism: Ted Hughes and the corpus of Sylvia Plath.
	home.earthlink.net /~glenn_scheper/Sylvia_Plath.htm (12516 words)

	Ariel -- Sylvia Plath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And I Am the arrow, The dew that flies Suicidal, at one with the drive Into the red Eye, the cauldron of morning.
		Interpretation of Sylvia Plath's "Ariel." by David Dunson, an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at The University of Kansas who wrote this short essay for his International Baccalaureate.
		Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems short paper by Alexis Smirnow
	www.sylviaplath.de /plath/ariel.html (138 words)

	BookkooB: Ariel - Sylvia Plath
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	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/057122685X.htm (178 words)

	.a wind of such violence.the work of plath.
		.a wind of such violence.the work of plath.
		(Formerly known as "For The Love of Sylvia Plath")
		Never try to trick me with a kiss
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