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Fahad Durukan & Lu'Lu' Khan
- October 27, 1962
- Ariel (posthumous collection)
- Plath's horse
- Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.
God’s lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!—The furrow
- "the child's cry" (24)
- "berries cast dark" (11)
- "pivot of heels and knees (6)
- "thighs, hair" (17)
- "red eye" (30-31)
Plath wrote Ariel in order to illustrate how she wanted to move on from her separation with Hughes and her other hardships in life. Also the poem describes how Plath feels liberated yet rebellious and experiences recovery through her confessional poetry.
- Ariel
- "God’s lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!” (4-6)
- "White
Godiva, I unpeel—
Dead hands, dead stringencies.”
(19-21)
- "substanceless blue" (2)
"pour of tor" (3)
- "black sweet blood mouthfuls" (13)
- "a glitter of seas" (23)
- "red eye" (30-31)