“Lady Lazarus” is a 28-stanza free verse poem by American confessional poet Sylvia Plath. It was originally published in the 1965 collection Ariel, two years after Plath died by suicide. Considered one of Plath’s most famous poems, "Lady Lazarus" twists the biblical story of Lazarus's resurrection as it recounts the speaker's experience with suicide attempts. In the poem, Plath presents dying as an art form and questions the “miracle” of survival.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), poet and novelist, explored her obsessions with death, self, and nature in works that expressed her ambivalent attitudes toward the universe.Sylvia Plath was born in Boston's...
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In "Three Women," the final poem of Winter Trees (1971), Sylvia Plath speaks through the voice of a woman in a maternity ward, whose words provide a fitting statement for the poet's singular fixation ...
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Although most of her creative energies were directed toward poetry, Sylvia Plath produced one novel, The Bell Jar (1963), a striking work which has contributed to her reputation as a significant figur...
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In his introduction to The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-62 (1982), her husband, poet Ted Hughes, wrote that she wore "many masks" but that he believes he knew her "real self" -- "the self I had marr...
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Biography EssayNow famous for her ritual flirtations with death, Sylvia Plath has emerged as a significant fig- ure in contemporary American literature in the two and a half decades since her suicide ...
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath