Reviews tagging 'Death'

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

28 reviews

honeystuck's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

this book is definitely ‘disturb the comfortable, comfort the disturbed’ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Gore and Racial slurs

sofiadidonato's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I have bought a edition that has both of plath’s poetry books and some scattered poems together. I have just finished Ariel. I have been trying to do so for the last 3 years but her poems are really dense and dark. However she writes like no one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Classism

dafni's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

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.

megelizabeth's review against another edition

2.5

I studied some of this anthology's poems at school, and I've been meaning to get around to reading the whole thing for years, so I'm glad I've finally done that. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy or appreciate or feel as emotionally attached to this collection as I expected to. It's undoubtedly a literary masterpiece, with so much to say about death and also about relationships and motherhood and despair. However, the racism and the Holocaust comparisons were extremely difficult to stomach, and ultimately meant I just couldn't get on board with this collection or with Plath.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

ella__28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

pinkelefant_78's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

maria_winther's review against another edition

4.5

smukke digte. forskellige. jeg kunne særligt godt lide de digte, der handlede om relationer og mentalt helbred.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Antisemitism

peskimo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

kirstensbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Miscarriage and Racism