Ariel: Poems | 
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Book you have the most copies of ❤️
Assassins Apprentice by Robin Hobb is next with 5.
And I have 4 of The Bell Jar.
pickThis has been coming up a lot in my life lately so I‘m glad I got a chance to reread it. I haven‘t looked at most of these poems since I was in high school, and, besides being more upset by the occasional racist and ableist language Plath uses, I found the work just as affecting as the first time.
so-soI've been avoiding reviewing Ariel because I know it is a firm favourite of many.
I read The Bell Jar and it spoke to my soul, so I expected Plath's poetry to do the same.
I imagine this collection being popular with those who like their poetry to be read aloud & who favour form & language over clarity of message.
I struggled to extract meaning from a lot of these poems. Without that connection, regretfully, they didn't get beneath my skin.
Have a drink today for my namesake (handle-sake?) Sylvia Plath! If you haven't yet, take an opportunity to read a poem or two. One can never go wrong with Lady Lazarus, naturally. Better yet, there are readings you can find on YouTube of Sylvia reading them herself! Cheers to a light snuffed out too soon...
Sorting out my Plath and other poetry shelves today ♥️
National Poetry Month: Day 6! ❤📖
This is another Plath poem that I absolutely love! The language is SO beautiful! 💕
On the stiff twig up there
Hunches a wet black rook
Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain.
I do not expect a miracle
Or an accident
To set the sight on fire
In my eye, nor seek
Any more in the desultory weather some design
But let spotted leaves fall as they fall
Without ceremony, or portent
#NationalPoetryMonth
National Poetry Month: Day Three! 📖❤
Here is Resolve, by Sylvia Plath. This is one of those poems that I love simply because I find it utterly beautiful! 😍
#NationalPoetryMonth
Many many thanks to Scott ( @vivastory ) for reminding me that April is National Poetry Month! 🎉🎉🎉 I love April (it's my bday month after all!) And I love poetry, so it's always felt like a perfect pairing to me! 😁 Be prepared to see a lot of Sylvia Platt poems over the next 30 days, as she's my favorite! 💕📚
National Poetry Month: Day One
This is the last stanza of the poem, Wintering, by ﹰSylvia Plath. #NationalPoetryMonth
"I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life." #OnThisDay in 1963, Sylvia Plath took her life. Most of her success came posthumously, including a Pulitzer Prize won in 1982. She is known and studied around the world for her confessional poetry in the collections Colossus and Ariel, and her semi autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. #HistoryGetsLIT
Sylvia Plath would have been 89 years old today. 🎂
an excerpt from "Lady Lazarus" by ? Sylvia Plath. Full poem at
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus
#identical #poetrymatters @TheSpineView
pickHow fitting that today is world poetry day!
I haven‘t read any poetry in a while and it felt like the right fit for this weekend.
Though, modernly, some of the language is a bit off putting- I still really enjoyed this.
I enjoy poetry even though it doesn‘t come 100% naturally for me. I tend to read through 2 or 3 times, which I think only aids the experience.
Another book off my #bookspinbingo
One of my favourites. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus
#Burn #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#cold #poetrymatters
I‘ve definitely quoted this poem way too many times, but I love it ♥️
#bell #poetrymatters
A bit more Plath ❤️ part of my fave poem.
Thanks for the very cool post card Jenny 😁 I‘m free any of the suggested days at the moment. Let me know if you want to meet lunchtime or after work/dinner time and I‘ll block it out in my calendar.
Very happy to be using my new notebook ❤️
pickI read this July 19-23 & rated it 4 ⭐️. Many, many moons ago I‘d read The Bell Jar. Since then I have been interested in reading more Plath but never really sought her poetry out. On one of my poetry buying sprees last year, I came across this book and bought it. While I didn‘t like every poem, I liked it enough to want to read more of her poetry.
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
📖 Yes! I love poetry! I think sometimes it can be more raw and emotional than fiction can be
📖 I love both actually! I like the liberating feeling of free form style, but also love the rhythm of verse form style!
📖 Ariel by Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton's collected poems, and Emily Dickinson's collected poems 💕📚
The many emotions that accompany new motherhood.
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Happy Mother‘s Day to all mothers.
#AMothersStory #BiblioMAYnia
#PoetryMatters #Mother
#MagicalMay #MothersDay
#7days7books
Sylvia and I first ‘met‘ in an English Lit class when I was 16. Her words ♥️
@BarbaraBB
#7days7books day 2: books that have left a deep impression on me and changed me.
#GratefulReads - Day Twenty-One #ReadInHighSchool The same copy, full of notes from my A-Level English Literature class.
This is a #masterpiece to me.
I found a new cover in Waterstones the other day and hope it arrives in my Christmas books!
#movember
#7days7covers #covercrush Day 3
@Oryx would you like to have a go at this challenge? Post 7 favourite covers over 7 days without explanation - just tag a new person each time.
Day 7
#covercrush
#7days7covers
#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush
Day # 4
@MicheleinPhilly , have you been tagged yet? 🤔 Post 7 covers that you love over 7 days; no explanation. Tag a new person to play each day.
Ariel was calling to me from the bookshelf last night, and I told my bf this. He said it meant I should read it. So I dived in. I had a terrible day yesterday and it is exactly what I‘ve needed. I took notice in a new way of Plath‘s use of color. She seems to, be it purposeful or accidental, have a system in how she uses color to personify emotion onto objects. Red is one I noticed; it seems to always be associated with fear, death, or depression.
#burn #poetrymatters
From Lady Lazarus.
#earth #poetrymatters
As I‘ve been stuck in Sylvia‘s head all day, it seems apt to have one of hers.
This from ‘Berck-Plage‘.
Thank you for these #MoonReflections @Meaw_catlady 😊
1. Yes, I feel the joy and pain of others, both real people and fictional ones! 😥
2. I often use relaxing music to create a sacred place, somewhere where I feel at peace
3. “If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”- from the tagged book
4. Sending blessings to @Branwen @BooknerdsLife @StayCurious @sudi @Craftylikefox
#moonsong #maymoviemagic
Half of my favourite poem 🖤
Thanks for a great month Cindy and Rohit 👍🏻
A particular situation in work, can‘t do anymore, stop stressing- release 😁
Last two verses of The Moon and the Yew Tree - my favourite poem ever (Plath)
💕❤️ love to all
#moonreflections
so-soAs always, my poetry disclaimer stands: I'm not an avid reader of verse, so my reviews should be taken with a grain of salt. In this case, I thought Plath had a lovely way with words, but I just didn't like most of the poems. I found them interesting, but they felt too dark for my taste. My favorites were those about the bees. I don't know what it was about them I enjoyed so much, but I'd probably revisit those before any of the others.
so-soI cannot deny the lure of Plath‘s story. A few poems in, I devoured her entire Wikipedia page. After the last poem, I avidly consumed the “About Sylvia Plath” section, fascinated by her memory, which is quoted, of her first experience of the sea: “When I was learning to creep...my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave & was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.”
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This is the only kind of smiling I can imagine snow doing: silent; sinister.
I need Princess Spring to wake up, scream, & blow the head right off of Winter‘s smiling face.
#buffythevampireslayer #scoobygang
@VioletBramble @Birdsong28 @TheKidUpstairs @jessinikkip @gradcat @Johanna414 @BarbaraJean @Pricel101 @samjmitchell
