Poetry Forum

i just picked up ariel.

i think she's a good poet, and more - tho i don't know what that "more" is, it's quite intense / harrowing.

I love Sylvia Plath's work, and I feel that I know more of her through her poetry than I could ever learn by reading about her. No doubt this is an illusion, but there it is... There are a number of writers, prose and poetry, who I feel the same way about - that their work rises above the detail of their outer lives in a way that seems almost mediumistic, channeling something that owed little to the detail of their mundane experience. Viewed like that, their biographies and bad habits don't really seem that important or even relevant.

I've never been much of a fan, but I read this for the first time the other night and liked it very much ... http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/sylviaplath/1413

I think what she does to a fantastic or superb quality is EXPRESSIION but this isn't all that's real in poetry...

A talent!!

Snobs hint - apparently the best thing about Ariel is the repetition between poems.