Resurrected
Being able to comment on Sylvia Plath's poem ¨Lady Lazarus¨, involves coming in contact with the events that shaped her life. She was born in Boston in 1932 and committed suicide in London in 1963. When reading Plath's poetry, especially ¨Lady Lazarus¨, one has to keep in mind that the author was deeply scarred by her fathers death, coincidentally at age 8 when she published her first few verses in a Boston newspaper. By the time she was 18, she entered Smith College on a scholarship, she already had an extraordinary list of publications; while she was at Smith she wrote over 500 poems. In the poem Sylvia personifies her self as the female version of Lazarus, and describes how she ¨strips to death¨, and like Lazarus has been brought back from the death, but unlike Lazarus she keeps playing with death, and later achieving her purpose. In ¨Lady Lazarus¨, Plath expresses her personal pain and mixes it with her poetic work. She uses this union to escape her world......
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