Lady Lazarus

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"Lady Lazarus" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that powerfully explores themes of death, resurrection, and female identity through dark, ironic, and theatrical imagery.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf confessional poem
poem
alludesTo Holocaust imagery
Lazarus of Bethany
Nazi camp system
surface form: Nazi concentration camps
author Sylvia Plath
collection Ariel
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReputation central work of confessional poetry
one of Sylvia Plath's most famous poems
firstPublicationYear 1965
firstPublishedIn Ariel
form lyric poem
genre confessional poetry
hasOpeningLine I have done it again.
includedIn The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
influenced feminist literary criticism
language English
lineCountApproximate 84
literaryMovement Confessionalism
meter free verse
narrativePerspective first-person
periodOfComposition 1962
placeInAuthorCareer late work
publisherOfFirstBookPublication Faber and Faber
structure short tercets
subject a woman who repeatedly attempts suicide
subjectOf extensive literary criticism
theme death
female identity
performance
power
rebirth
resurrection
revenge
self-destruction
spectacle
suffering
suicide
trauma
tone dark
ironic
theatrical
usesLiteraryDevice allusion
enjambment
imagery
metaphor
repetition
simile

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Ariel containsWork Lady Lazarus
Sylvia Plath notableWork Lady Lazarus