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Ariel

Ariel

by Sylvia Plath

1965

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Finished 2025/06/18
My favorite poems were The Rabbit Catcher, The Night Dances, The Courage of Shutting-Up, and The Rival

Quotes

"I tasted the malignity of the gorse, Its black spikes, The extreme unction of its yellow candle-flowers. They had an efficiency, a great beauty, And were extravagant, like torture."
The Rabbit Catcher, p. 7
"A smile fell in the grass. Irretrievable! And how will your night dances Lose themselves. In mathematics?"
The Night Dances, p. 20
"Smilingly, blue lightning Assumes, like a meathook, the burden of his parts."
The Other, p. 27
"The stolen horses, the fornications Circle a womb of marble. Where are you going That you suck breath like mileage?"
The Other, p. 28
"So the discs of the brain revolve, like the muzzles of cannon."
The Courage of Shutting-Up, p. 30
"This is the sea, then, this great abeyance."
Berck-Plage, p. 32
"This is what it is to be complete. It is horrible."
Berck-Plage, p. 35
"The diaphanous satins of a January window White as babies’ bedding and glittering with dead breath. O ivory!"
A Birthday Present, p. 46
"Spiteful as a woman, but not so nervous, And dying to say something unanswerable."
The Rival, p. 50