ife and mother and a man searching for a wife all at the same time. Shakespeare's Ariel is also a slave, subject to the whims of his master and desirous of being freed. This applies to Plath's woman rider, and she indeed achieves a sense of release and freedom through the ride and contrarily through the unification she experiences with the horse and the land over which they ride.
The power of the female is expressed as she becomes the lioness of God. The unified poet-rider-horse can become anyone or anything and help them achieve the freedom for which they yearn. The freedom o
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