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    “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath captures the emotions and struggles of Plath as she suffered through depression and the only thing truly dear to her was her horse, Ariel who took Plath to adventures and gave her an opportunity to get away from her darkness and recreate herself. Ariel Summary

    “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath captures the emotions and struggles of Plath as she suffered through depression and the only thing truly dear to her was her horse, Ariel who took Plath to adventures and gave her an opportunity to get away from her darkness and recreate herself. Ariel Summary

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      The poem “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath involves themes of Liberation, Gender, Rebirth, and Death. Plath very skilfully instils all these themes into the poem and displays her journey of self-transformation with the death of her past self and rebirth of her new self. Ariel Summary

     

    The poem “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath involves themes of Liberation, Gender, Rebirth, and Death. Plath very skilfully instils all these themes into the poem and displays her journey of self-transformation with the death of her past self and rebirth of her new self.

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    The poem “Ariel” does not carry any specific or consistent rhyme scheme as it is written in free verse. But it does carry a somewhat consistent metre of iambic dimeter and iambic trimeter. Ariel Summary

    The poem “Ariel” does not carry any specific or consistent rhyme scheme as it is written in free verse. But it does carry a somewhat consistent metre of iambic dimeter and iambic trimeter. Ariel Summary

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    Allusion: The poet alludes to Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest, as in the play an air-spirit is named “Ariel” who has magical powers. In the poem and in her real life, Plath named her beloved horse Ariel. Another allusion in the poem is of “Lady Godiva”, a noblewoman who rode her horse naked forRead more

    1. Allusion: The poet alludes to Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest, as in the play an air-spirit is named “Ariel” who has magical powers. In the poem and in her real life, Plath named her beloved horse Ariel.

    Another allusion in the poem is of “Lady Godiva”, a noblewoman who rode her horse naked for her husband to lift the taxes imposed on oppressed people. In the poem, she refers to her as “White/ Godiva”.

    1. Asyndeton: Lines 5-6 and lines 9-11 carry omission of words known as Asyndeton.

    1. Enjambment: The poet uses Enjambment throughout the poem some examples are in line 1-3, and lines 8 and 9.

    1. Imagery: The poet uses heavy imagery throughout the poem, some examples are lines 10-15.

    1. Metaphor: In line 23, the poet refers to herself as glitter of seas which shows the femininity of sea and her becoming one with nature.

    1. Synecdoche:  Parts of something that represents the whole, in this poem, line 17 describes “Thighs, hair” that represents the speaker’s entire body.

    1. Hyperbole: “The child’s cry melt into the walls” is an exaggerated statement.

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