Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

4 reviews

hannalizzy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Favorites: 
-Getting There 
-A Birthday Present
-The Moon and the Yew Tree
-Letter in November

“I would have killed myself gladly that time any possible way, 

now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains,

the diaphanous satins of a january window

white as babies’ bedding and glittering with dead breath. 

O ivory!” - a birthday present

oh sylvia… this collection hurted to read :/ hard topics, uncomfortable imagery, but undeniably lyrical and surreal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

pozo67's review against another edition

There's no need to use racial slurs like that! I have a lot of admiration for her bravery in writing about hospital but the racism ruins all that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

tillynancy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, and War

joperceptions's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

This was a re read of the book. i found it interesting how much my thoughts could change in it especially after discussing certain poems with my uni class. Her poems progressively get more intricate, and withstand more analytical capability the further you get due to the fact that the ambiguity strengthens. Some of them i liked, a lot of them i did not like at all. I think the main one i enjoyed was “the applicant”. Definitely a lot of racism in here- inexcusable racism. Which made it really hard to actually enjoy any part of the text at all.