Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

24 reviews

marlasmirkingrevenge's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Death, and Racism

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

shelfofunread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

Moderate: War, Genocide, and Racial slurs

shaunaviolet'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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism

pulpandprose's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

chloe_hazel's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Mental illness

je5s_04's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

  Greta poems minus the racism/antisemitism 🫡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Rape, Racism, and Racial slurs

__cranky__'s review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

4.0

Some poems you can feel how frantic and unwell she was. Maybe I relate a little too much to “The Birthday Present”. A few too many problematic dictions…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

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 of parent, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Grief, Racism, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Self harm

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.

bella_mckinnon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

Excellent poetry collection of Sylvia Plath. Poignant, impactful, wrenching language. Powerful poetry that I just feel. I just feel it. It's truly amazing stuff.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness