Lady Lazurus - Sylvia Plath
One of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century
Took her life at 30 —“I AM ONLY THIRTY”
Poetry was an attempt to catalogue despair violent emotion and obsession with death
Post war poet
Committed suicide by inhaling gas from a kitchen oven
Plath used History “to explain herself”
Writing about Nazi concentration camps as though she had been imprisoned there
She said: ‘ I think that personal experience shouldn’t be a kind of shut box and mirror looking experience narcissistic experience. I believe it should be generally relevant, to such things as Hiroshima and Dachau’
METAPHORS OF THE TERRIFYING HUMAN MIND
LAZARUS
Lazarus of Bethany
Saint Lazurus
Lazarus
Subject of the prominent miracle of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after death
Structure
Twenty eight stanza or terrestrial of three lines each
Poem is commonly understood to be about suicide
Strong ideas of resurrection
“Done it again”
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