blakehalsey's review against another edition
5.0
Plath's manuscript as she intended it to be, it is thriving with bold and brave language making her one of the greatest American poets. These poems are real in the rawest sense, touching, nearly burning, every reader and hearer.
divyareads's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Racial slurs
dllh's review against another edition
2.0
I had read a few of Plath's poems many years ago but don't remember ever sitting down and reading a whole collection, perhaps because by and large, poetry collections (of which I've struggled through many) are kind of terrible to sit down and read. Ariel followed this trend for me. Here and there I found a poem or a line or an image I liked, but I found myself glazing over plenty too, and generally I just don't think I'm the right audience for Plath, if I'm the right audience for poetry at all.