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3	->''This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.\
4	The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.''
5	-->"The Moon and the Yew Tree"
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7	''Ariel'' is a collection of {{poetry}} by Creator/SylviaPlath. Published posthumously, it's her most well known work (well, that or ''Literature/TheBellJar''), and her most critically acclaimed. ''Ariel'' is generally regarded to be one of the most important books of poetry of the twentieth century.
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9	''Ariel'' was originally published in 1965, two years after Plath died, by her husband Ted Hughes. However, the contents of this edition weren't exactly what Plath wrote the contents were to be, and another version (called "The Restored Edition") was published in 2004, with Plath's original table of contents.
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12	!!This Book Contains:
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14	* AnimalMotif : Bees, in a collection of poems written around the author's bee-keeping ventures. Also cows, and the occasional bird.
15	** The title itself is the name of Plath's horse, and comes from a poem in which she describes the feeling of oneness she shares with the animal while riding.
16	* AudioAdaptation: Sylvia Plath read several of the poems from ''Ariel'' on a radio show for the BBC in 1952, including "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy," "Fever 103," "Ariel," "The Applicant," and "A Birthday Present." You can still find them, too - in a collection the Beeb did, or online (if you know where to look.)
17	* ForeignLanguageTitle: "Berck-Plage," "Purdah."
18	* GratuitousGerman: Lots, but most notable in "Daddy" and "Berck-Plage"
19	* TheGrotesque: The narrator of "Lady Lazarus" describes herself as a sideshow freak.
20	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Ariel," "Lady Lazarus," "Nick and the Candlestick," "Gulliver," "Mary's Song."
21	* TheMistress: The other woman in "The Rival."
22	* ParentalAbandonment: The father of the narrator of "Daddy" (and Sylvia Plath's own father) died when she was young, resulting in the narrator feeling abandoned.
23	* SignatureStyle: It's not until ''Ariel'' that Sylvia Plath really developed hers.
24	* StayInTheKitchen: The narrator of "Lesbos" is definitely getting this vibe from her husband and friends.
25	* TakenForGranite: The woman in "Edge" is (metaphorically) this.
26	* UpdatedRerelease: The 2004 edition.

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