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'Ariel' by Sylvia Plath

Advantages: Easy to read
Disadvantages: too thoughtful and melancholy for some

I really enjoyed reading this collection of poetry. Plath has a graphic imagination evident in poems such as 'Cut' and her imagery is at times explicit but so apt. 'Morning song' is yet another beautiful poem. The title plays upon the two seperate meanings of 'morning' and 'mourning'. Describing a mother's feelings after birth, Plath describes her as 'cow heavy' using the image of the lactating mother and effortlessly transferring it to the accurate ...
...Plath's poetry is as intriguing as her life. People might suggest her poetry is depressing and such but i urge you to read it. She has such a way with words. Also i would highly recommend reading 'The Bell Jar'. A fascinating insight into the world of insanity through the eyes of a young girl. ...

Kickboxer22 30.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Ariel - Sylvia Plath

Compared with me, a tree is immortal

Advantages: Remarkable poems
Disadvantages: None

...Sylvia Plath Genre: Poetry Title: Crossing the Water Pages: vi + 56 Copyright © 1971 by Ted Hughes ISBN: 0-06-013374-0 pbk. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-138758 I bought this book from Amazon US in June 2006. The price was US$ 8.20. For years, Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson have been my preferred American female poets. ************************** Sylvia Plath at Glance ************************** According to Merriam Webster's ...
...posthumously include Ariel (1965) and Crossing the Water (1971), both poetry collection, and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977), a book of short stories and other prose. The Collected Poems, which includes many previously unpublished poems, appeared in 1981 and was awarded a Pulitzer Price. More further details about Sylvia Plath also available at: (1) www.sylviaplath.de (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SylviaPlath ************************ ...

cs.hari 12.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Crossing the Water - Sylvia Plath

The small jewelled Doll of a mans imagination

Advantages: great collection with loots of depth
Disadvantages: none

...9 ‘Winter Trees’ by Sylvia Plath. 10 ‘The Colossus’ by Sylvia Plath. 11 ‘Crossing the Water’ by Sylvia Plath. Finally, a comment on winter trees: this selection is excellent but should be read in conjunction with her other poems. There are lots of fabulous collections out there! ...

Kram_Eniarrol 02.04.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Winter Trees - Sylvia Plath

British education and mental illness

Advantages: Complex points alluded to
Disadvantages: Can be depressing

Strange title? Well: We have been studying the poetry of Plath and Jennings ... both suffered from mental illness and both allude to this quite heavily in their poetry. What are our teachers doing? 3 months away from exams and we are forced to study two lots of depressing, insanity encourageing poems ... which we aren't even going to be examined on! Don't get me wrong, Plath ... and Jennings ... as poets are really good writers and it is a shame ...
...Level text book. You have to enjoy leveled poetry to read work by either of these poets and must never take them at face value. They both are powerful women and they have a lot to say, they do this in a variety of complex ways! My only recommendation is to read the works of Plath for yourself, but not when you are depressed or stressed and only in the summer! Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy! ...

Kram_Eniarrol 09.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Selected Poems - Sylvia Plath

Great Introdcution to Poetry

Advantages: Nice poems, bright and colourful
Disadvantages: Not as engaging as other childrens books

...really heard before. The cover of the book is bright blue and has the title in nice bubble letters which are all a different colour across the front and lots of different pictures all around this. The back cover is also bright blue and again has lots of pictures covering it showing a variety of different things. Upon opening the book the first page has a lovely little space where your child can write their own name so people will know that the book ...
...of the book and the names of all the poems included. The book is split into 2 different sections the first being, HapolooKangaroo and the second, Higglety, Pigglety, Pop. Both of the sections have 20 poems in. I am not going to individually list all of the poems included in this book as it would make for a massive list but to name just a few we have, Hen’s Song Tiger Hey Diddle Diddle The Kettle Clocks and Watches A Boy Went Walking From the ...

sewbizzie 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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