Ariel

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In 1971, the volumes Winter Trees and Crossing the Water were published in the UK, including nine previously unseen poems from the original manuscript of Ariel. [36] Writing in New Statesman, fellow poet Peter Porter wrote:

From the original review in The Age, Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 1965: Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932. In 1956, while studying on a Fulbright grant, she met and married the poet Ted Hughes. In 1960 her first book of poems appeared, and in 1963, she committed suicide. As she rides, she begins to lose pieces of herself; she is shedding her past life and “stringencies” and becoming something new. She is merging with Ariel and becoming the “arrow” that will take her to a new life. The poem ends with the two charging on into the burning sun/future that awaits them. Rose, Jacqueline (February 1, 1998). "The happy couple". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on March 12, 2017.a b Thorpe, Vanessa (March 19, 2000). "I failed her. I was 30 and stupid". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on March 20, 2016. a b Wilson, Andrew (February 2, 2013). "Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' ". The Guardian . Retrieved October 5, 2023.

Sylvia Plath's Tombstone in England Defaced, Removed: 25 Years After Her Suicide, Tormented American Poet Finds No Peace". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. June 5, 1988. Archived from the original on September 2, 2018 . Retrieved September 13, 2018. An inquest was held on February 15 and gave a ruling of suicide as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. [48] Hughes was devastated; they had been separated for six months, due to his affair with Assia Wevill. In a letter to an old friend of Plath from Smith College, he wrote "That's the end of my life. The rest is posthumous." [35] [49] Wevill also committed suicide, using a gas stove, six years later.

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Most Famous Poems by Sylvia Plath | Learnodo Newtonic". learnodo-newtonic.com. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020 . Retrieved May 30, 2020. Sylvia Plath's Cambridge-era Prose: A Survey". sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com . Retrieved October 31, 2023. I got a present. But I was thinking that if I unwrapped it, it would bite my face off. So I didn't. Hah. If the poems are despairing, vengeful, and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard minded: Alvarez, Al (2007). Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-8744-6.