Sylvia Plath was a dynamic and admired poet. She took her like at the age of 30. In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus,” it describes a character who thinks her life worth nothing. It seems like she wants to die and come back to life. In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” the speaker has various character traits but is self-destructive, suicidal, vengeful, and masochistic.
Firstly, the speaker in this poem is self-destructive. In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus,” the speaker described:
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call.
The speaker is trying to hurt herself. Without the day-to-day pain, nothing else feels real. She thinks it is her calling from the Lord or whomever to hurt herself and try to kill herself.
Additionally, the speaker is suicidal. In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath clarifies:
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.
The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
How did the parents not notice the speaker’s pain? What was so horrible in her life that she wants to commit suicide? In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath express that: “And like that cat I have nine times to die. / This is Number Three” (21-22). The speaker is trying to commit suicide. She has tried a few times. Now, after the third …show more content…
People like Sylvia Plath’s speaker in “Lady Lazarus” cannot be human. The speaker thinks dying is an art like music, poetry, paintings, etc. Death filled with sadness and pain. When loved ones die, painful feelings bursting through them. Some artistic things loaded with sadness and pain, but it has more happiness than death does. Furthermore, she believes that she dies pretty good. In art or artistic things, certain people could learn how to play the piano, paint a picture, or write poetry in a couple days. They could do those artistic things better than someone who has been practicing for months or
Firstly, the speaker in this poem is self-destructive. In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus,” the speaker described:
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call.
The speaker is trying to hurt herself. Without the day-to-day pain, nothing else feels real. She thinks it is her calling from the Lord or whomever to hurt herself and try to kill herself.
Additionally, the speaker is suicidal. In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath clarifies:
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.
The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
How did the parents not notice the speaker’s pain? What was so horrible in her life that she wants to commit suicide? In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath express that: “And like that cat I have nine times to die. / This is Number Three” (21-22). The speaker is trying to commit suicide. She has tried a few times. Now, after the third …show more content…
People like Sylvia Plath’s speaker in “Lady Lazarus” cannot be human. The speaker thinks dying is an art like music, poetry, paintings, etc. Death filled with sadness and pain. When loved ones die, painful feelings bursting through them. Some artistic things loaded with sadness and pain, but it has more happiness than death does. Furthermore, she believes that she dies pretty good. In art or artistic things, certain people could learn how to play the piano, paint a picture, or write poetry in a couple days. They could do those artistic things better than someone who has been practicing for months or