Ariel

This is my first foray into Plath and I'm pretty much a noob with poetry in general. I'll be honest: I struggle. I wonder if I need to be in the right frame of mind, or whether should the poems drag me from the real world into a better place? I'm not sure.

It's not what I was expecting, maybe that's it. Now that I know that, I should have another go; find some lines that I get and hold onto them. There are other worlds than these.

I loved reading Sylvia Plath as a teen. I read the Bell Jar a long time ago, but I know that was just scratching the surface of her writings. I'm quite curious about her life.
As an adult, I'm no longer as emotional and full of angst. I do think that the writing is amazing, thoughtful, and emotional.

The writing is very dark and enigmatic, filled with images of the color red, animated by her desire for relief and for death. It is hard to read, hard to understand, but one can only see the high quality of her writing. I need to mention that she used racial slurs several times and loose comparisons to the Holocaust.

This collection of poems was published posthumously.