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...what has changed in Ariel: The Restored Edition? Twelve poems have been reinstated--poems that Hughes removed, he later wrote, because they were "personally aggressive." Well, yes. In "The Rabbit Catcher," Plath assumes the role of a bunny strangled by wire snares set by a man with whom she has a "relationship." "The Other," a poem about infidelity, begins with the line "You come in late, wiping your lips"--an opening-bell knockout. Rarely is the façade of marital bliss shown up so bleakly as in "The Detective": "This is the smell of years burning, here in the kitchen...
That is true, but it's not the whole story. Ted Hughes' Ariel ends with "Edge," a poem about a dead woman. And that's how we have come to see Plath: as a woman who lost the battle with depression and killed herself. But that's not how she saw herself, at least not at that point, and the restored Ariel reminds us of that. It ends with the poem Plath put last: "Wintering," about suffering endured and hope renewed. "The bees are flying," its closing line reads. "They taste the spring." --Reported by Andrea Sachs
Interspersed with the power of the music were solemn, spoken passages. In a multitude of ways, Kuumba reminded Harvard students of the importance of the season. One poem challenged listeners, asking “What does Christmas mean...
...hate thee, and I love thee. The first line of a poem by Catullus that was the first and last I read in the last Latin class I took, in tenth grade. (Thanks for the SAT help, it’s been good knowing...
Like the other artists, Gould-Wartofsky focused his readings on the topic of homelessness “just like you might write a love poem and get a girl to think of you in a deeper way. You can write a poem about, say, homelessness, and get people to think about that in a deeper...