| Sylvia Plath is prominent among the several confessional poets sprung up in mid-twentieth-century United States, and in the past several decades there have emerged numerous articles, biographies and monographs about her in Western countries. Meanwhile, in China the Plathian studies fall much behind compared with those in Western countries concerning both the field of translation and that of criticism.Based on the current situation of Plathian studies at home and abroad, this thesis focuses on the most reputed poetic masterpiece of Sylvia Plath, the Ariel album, and analyzes her extraordinary late poems in such three aspects as the influence of her father on her life and poetic theme, the influence and stimulation of her husband's infidelity on her outlook towards love and marriage as well as on her feminist consciousness, and her own meditation and exploration on many contrast elements in life, in order to reveal her personal quandary and improvement showed in this album. Through detailed analysis and panoramic comprehension, this thesis aims to manifest the spiritual pilgrimage of Sylvia Plath in her Ariel album: her trauma, confusion, anguish, struggle and final self-redemption. With the references from foreign Plathian studies and the meticulous apprehension on Plath's poems by the author, this thesis focuses to not only demonstrate the thrilling charms of her poems but also dedicate to the domestic Plathian studies.
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