In this poem, we get a glimpse of the troubled relationship that Plath had with her authoritative father. Splits and passes, sister to The brown arc Of the neck I cannot catch God’s lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees!-The furrow Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. Published in 1960 in Collected Poems, “Ariel” is one of her poems with shorter, but nevertheless powerful, lines. Here is a collection of some of her best-known works: 1. Sadly, Plath took her life in 1963, a painful conclusion to the clinical depression that her psychiatrist had previously diagnosed her with. Perhaps it is these struggles with mental anguish, coupled with her vulnerability, that make her poems easy for many to relate to. Through her writing, she shared her feelings of despair, anger, and even her obsession with death. As one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century, Sylvia Plath managed to win readers’ hearts even in her short 30 years of life.
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