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Ariel

★★★★☆  book

Ariel

Among the poems Plath composed in a ferocious conflagration in her final months stand ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’, wherein rage and domination transmute into molten, perfect form. They remain terrifying and entirely, uncompromisingly alive.

what it left me with

Anger, once subjected to the strictures of form and craft, ceases to be poison and becomes force. Do not entomb the fury. Shape it into power.

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