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Poetry · 1965

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

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Poetry · 1965 · American · Contemporary

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' — poems written at a rate of one a morning.

Confessional poetryLyricRageDeathMotherhoodSelf

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Confessional in nickname only: these are controlled performances of fury, closer to Greek chorus than diary.

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