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The Arrow & The Sun
By the end of the poem, the speaker has stopped struggling against Ariel's crazy gallop, and she becomes "at one" with the horse. She embraces this experience, and she casts herself as "the arrow" heading "suicidal" toward the red rising sun. It's an intense and visceral image, and we feel like we're right there with the speaker, atop Ariel, heading into the bright red unknown. It's a moment of death, but also of rebirth: the speaker may have shed parts of herself, but she's become a powerful force of nature.
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