the Mabinogion – as are the nursery-tales and songs we still sing today
alighting on King Lear
The lyric essays
contrasted with poems which offer comfort by working as beatitudes or commentaries on life as it exists now
a ‘we’ which is one minute a couple considering marriage
Ariel by Sylvia Plath Jennifer Wong the Mabinogion – as areThe poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the