Critical Essay by Eleanor Ross Taylor
There is a pervasive impatience, a positive urgency to the poems [in Ariel]…. This makes for speed and excitement as you read, but on subsequent readings ...
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Critical Essay by Alicia Ostriker
Reading The Colossus and Ariel … on the assumption, perhaps perverse but useful for analysis, that the poetry has nothing to do with the suicide and must be a...
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Critical Essay by Arthur K. Oberg
The poems in Ariel have succeeded almost too well. Their restless intelligence and agonizing, ordered intensity have marked them too tellingly. They are now in dange...
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Critical Essay by Helen Vendler
In [the poems collected in "Crossing the Water"] written between 1960 and late 1961 and antedating "Ariel," the poet plays Pygmalion to her...
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Critical Essay by Francis Hope
There are several bad reasons for admiring [Ariel], and they are intricately involved with the good ones. The poems conform exactly to a stereotyped contemporary idea: ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lowell
[In the poems of Ariel], Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created—hardly a person at all, or a woman, certain...
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In the following essay, Wagner draws attention to the complexity of Plath's poetry in Ariel which, as the critic notes, invokes archetypal imagery and the paradoxical portrayal of suffering as ...
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Planning a June wedding? Not finding yourself or your ideal wedding represented in the pages of Modern Bride? Are you finding yourself pushed into traditional gender roles? Could be you are having ...
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Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement, by Sylvia Plath, with an introduction by Frieda Hughes. HarperCollins, 211 pages,...
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From the top of the reeking Hiriya landfill one can spot the Tel Aviv hospital where former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon lies crippled by a devastating stroke.On Sunday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, ...
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Playwright Zellnik, and actor Glenn Fleshler
A couple weeks back a guy named David Zellnik emailed me, asking me to come see a reading of his play: "Ariel Sharon Stands at the Temple Mount and D...
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ARIEL/MARDA, West Bank, Nov 23, Reuters - The rolling hills
inland from Israel's busy coastal strip are dotted with towns
and villages nestled under towers rising above the olive groves.
Look clos...
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ARIEL/MARDA, West Bank, Nov 23, Reuters - The rolling hills
inland from Israel's busy coastal strip are dotted with towns
and villages nestled under towers rising above the olive groves.
Look clos...
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Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's eldest son will go to prison next month for illegal fundraising during his father's 1999 primary campaign after Israel's Supreme Court on Monday rejected his ap...
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If there was one commonality among the two keynote speakers of Winning Workplaces' 2007 Top Small Workplaces Conference & Celebration on October 4, 2007, it was the aspiration to change the wor...
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Critical Essay by Eleanor Ross Taylor
'Offbeat Bride' by Ariel Meadow Stallings
