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    The poem describes a transformation from darkness into light. The speaker feels alone and in pain, like a hunted animal. Images of blood and shadows suggest inner turmoil. By the end, the speaker becomes like an arrow flying towards the rising sun, finding renewal in nature's cycles despite personal suffering.

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    The poem describes a transformation from darkness into light. The speaker feels alone and in pain, like a hunted animal. Images of blood and shadows suggest inner turmoil. By the end, the speaker becomes like an arrow flying towards the rising sun, finding renewal in nature's cycles despite personal suffering.

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    Ariel by Sylvia Plath

    Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God's lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees! ---The furrow Splits and passes, sister to The brown arc Of the neck I cannot catch, Nigger-eye Berries cast dark Hooks --Black sweet blood mouthfuls, Shadows. Something else Hauls me through air --Thighs, hair; Flakes from my heels. White Godiva, I unpeel --Dead hands, dead stringencies. And now I Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas. The child's cry Melts in the wall. And I Am the arrow, The dew that flies, Suicidal, at one with the drive Into the red Eye, the cauldron of morning.

    Analysis
    In Plaths poem Ariel there is no allusion. Black sweet blood mouthfuls, showdows, something else is an example of figurative language. The theme of this poem is emptiness. My interpretation of this poem is that she is alone and in pain.
    Plath, Sylvia. "Ariel -- Sylvia Plath." Sylvia Plath Homepage. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://www.sylviaplath.de/plath/ariel.html>.

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