“I didn‘t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
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Ariel: The Restored Edition | 
“I didn‘t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
pickBeautifully written. I like how the metaphors are widely used in her collections of poems. I like Tulip the most because I like how she could use colours to describe her mental state.
I will never forget the line ‘Dying is a an art‘ from Lady Lazarus - a poem about resurrection.
pickI have read Ariel numerous times before, but this was my first encounter with the restored edition. It has been several years since I have read the collection from beginning to end, so I can't comment on the differences between the restored & previously pub editions & how I feel about them. The restored edition does include a facsimile of the collection & I found it intriguing to look through. It was wonderful to revisit old favorites👇
The Jailer (excerpt)
pickLovely, sunny afternoon in Australia spent reading poetry in our hammock which is my favourite thing to do. Sylvia Plath just nails it. #perfection Afterwards we had 🌶 con carne with heaps of salad at the neighbours for dinner. The kids jumped on their trampoline the whole time! I just read them a chapter of Tom‘s Midnight Garden. Now Big Daddy is putting them to bed while I bathe in the luxurious smell of rose bubble bath & me time. What a day!
Hello April! Hello Poetry month! I think we need it more than ever.Ideas , emotions, observations distilled to its pure essence!
I know Plath gets mixed reviews. But if you liked The Bell Jar, her poetry will not disappoint!
panSuch a shame! I really wanted to like this one because I love The Bell Jar, but it was such a big disappointment and all of it didn't have to do strictly with the poems themselves. First off, I liked five poems from this collection and I could have easily found them online, for FREE (yes, I'm this bitter). There was racism - Black fetish and the N-word was used thrice. In 'Daddy', a poem about troubled father-daughter relationship, 👇
so-soIf the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Both of you are great light borrowers.
Her O-mouth grieves at the world, yours is unaffected.
#PoetryChallenge2018 for October.
My first time reading the poetry of Sylvia Plath. While I found some stanzas and lines beautiful in their stark brutality, I didn't really like this collection over all. This is in your face darkness.
pickPlath is intense, unrelenting, and unforgiving here. Her poems are strikingly, almost starkly, visual as if forcing you to see her own grim view. There is no flowery prose here. This is blood spattered across paper. Visceral and brutal.
Super stressed and needed a soak and some poetry. #booksandbaths #bathandbook #lushbubbles #pink #plath #whatnovelshouldireadnext? #bookandcoffee
Sylvia appears so youthful in the photos; then you realize she was only 30 when she passed. Her daughter Frieda Hughes writes the foreword and does a Q&A at the end; she too is a formidable poet. Through Frieda's insight we see Sylvia with more clarity. And btw SP's poems can be jarring and painful to read, which makes it all more poignant in retrospect.
Wondering about the username hissingpotatoes? It's from my favorite Sylvia Plath poem, Lesbos.
Picked up a journal and this book of poetry the other day. I've been wanting to reread Sylvia Plath for a long time, but I lost my copy of Selected Poems. I'm looking forward to reading this restored edition of Ariel. #PoetryChallenge2018
#QuotsyMar18 Day 6: A perspective on being #complete that is filled with dread, horror, darkness - only as Sylvia Plath depicts it.
Favorite book that starts with an "A"
#ALEXGIVEAWAY
Thanks, @Liberty !
I got my favorite lady for Christmas! 😍
"It is love you are full of. You know who you hate. He is hugging his ball and chain down by the gate." ?
