The poet….., originally intended the posthumous collection Ariel to close on a few poems about bees, instead of death.
Plath was writing the best poetry of her life, many of which would indeed make her name. Her work on the poems that would comprise her 1965 collection Ariel, which would go on to sell 15,000 copies in 10 months and launch her work into the mainstream, had never been so original or idiosyncratically her. “Sylvia Plath becomes herself,” is how poet Robert Lowell introduced Ariel in 1965, going on to call the collection a work that immortalized her as one of the “great classical heroines.””
How my heart sings 