Ted Hughes, Plath's husband, comments:ĪRIEL was the name of the horse on which she went riding weekly. "Ariel" was the name of the horse Plath rode at a riding school on Dartmoor in Devon. The poem, written just five months before her eventual suicide, thus, not surprisingly given its name as well, is one of her Ariel poems. It has been speculated that, being written on her birthday as well as using the general theme of rebirth, "Ariel" acted as a sort of psychic rebirth for the poet.
Davis notes a change in tone and break of the slanted rhyme scheme in the sixth stanza which marks a shift in the theme of the poem, from being literally about a horse ride, to more of a metaphoric experience of oneness with the horse and the act of riding itself. "Ariel" is composed of ten three-line stanzas with an additional single line at the end, and follows an unusual slanted rhyme scheme. Scholars and literary critics have applied various methods of interpretation to "Ariel". Despite the poem's ambiguity, it is understood to describe an early morning horse-ride towards the rising sun.
It was written on her thirtieth birthday, October 27, 1962, and published posthumously in the collection Ariel in 1965. " Ariel" is a poem written by the American poet Sylvia Plath.
Frenzy (1894), a painting by Władysław Podkowiński, depicting a ride similar to that described in "Ariel"
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