Research into the poem

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”