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Citations

"Ariel (angel)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Dec. 2013. Web. 08 Feb. 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_%28angel%29>.

"Ariel." BibleStudyTools.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2014. <http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/ariel/>.

"Ariel." By Sylvia Plath : The Poetry Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2014. <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178962>.

"The Great Sphinx: Its Meaning and Message." The Great Sphinx: Its Meaning and Message. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Feb. 2014. <http://lightomega.org/Ind/Message-of-the-Sphinx.html>.

"Lady Godiva: The Naked Truth." Harvard Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2014. <http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/lady-godiva-the-naked-tr.html>.

Ariel - Sylvia Plath

Background

Sound Devices/Rhyme

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

Symbolism/Motifs

Central Assertion

- "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.

Allusions

- 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)

Imagery

- "substanceless blue" (2)

"pour of tor" (3)

- "black sweet blood mouthfuls" (13)

- "a glitter of seas" (23)

- "red eye" (30-31)

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