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Comment 12 of 32, added on August 26th, 2005 at 3:06 AM.
Its a theatrical, just as she says it is. The rush bleeds into her pen and
she is caught again by her wave. what saddens me is that everyone sees her
poetry as grim including her ex husband Ted Hughes, whereas she manages to
touch another vibe for me. its more or less like a farce that stays on too
long or an emotion that is very self expressive. hard to explain it, but at
least i tried! Here's to reading your poems kid. Its a pity you never knew
how much its made a difference!
Tanya from India
Comment 11 of 32, added on June 26th, 2005 at 2:00 AM.
awsome poem, really grabed my attention. But is she Jewish?
Ass Monkey?
p.s is Becky, Vuli and Becky?
if so rock on man!!!
holden (named after catcher in the rye) from Australia
Comment 10 of 32, added on May 26th, 2005 at 6:10 PM.
I absolutely love the nazi and biblical allusion. It is one of the
greatest poems I have ever read. Poems like this chill your spine and
create a horrific yet empowering notion within the reader.
Weston Fillman from United States
Comment 9 of 32, added on April 17th, 2005 at 11:41 PM.
Sylvia Plath has gone to great lengths to craft this poem for maximum
emotional impact. Her choice of contrasting metaphors (The Holocaust, and
religion, both juxtaposed starkly against the "peanut-crunching crowd" of a
show) is immediately unsettling, and each word seems to have been carefully
chosen to strike hard at the reader's nerves and heart.
Rather than approaching it as an autobiographical commentary (or
prediction) on her life, I think it serves better as a "confessional"
snapshot of her emotional and mental state at the time the poem was
written. Death frightens her, it is scary as hell, her close encounters
with it have been full of worms and decay, and she regrets her previous
brushes with it: "What a trash / To annihilate each decade". Yet she's
morbidly compelled by her near-death experiences, to write about it is such
detail, and trivialises her return from death as a kind of show, and not
without some pride: "I do it exceptionally well".
Each experience destroys her, so that the final stanzas deal with people
examining her, and finding nothing human left: "A cake of soap" (fat and
ash left over from burning flesh) "A wedding ring / A gold filling" -
traces of a life lived, a story told, but no life left. In the final
stanza, she warns that she will again get stronger, and phoenix-like ("Out
of the ash / I rise with my red hair"), destroy those around her again.
It's controversial, it's frightening, it's draining... love it or hate it,
it's anything but ordinary. A fantastic poem.
Leonard Low from Australia
Comment 8 of 32, added on April 2nd, 2005 at 2:36 PM.
I like this poem very much. It isn't so much the poem I like but the
feeling it gives, what it hints at. Through out the poem she is talking
about suicide, but at the end she talks about rebirth from the destruction
and how the newly emerged person is much stronger than the first.
Zachary from United States
Comment 7 of 32, added on January 6th, 2005 at 8:18 AM.
This poem is really strong and powerful. With out even knowing a slightest
thing about the author's background, the reader knows that the poet was
depressed and unhappy. The author compares herself to a cat, a mystic
creature, thus saying that no one will know what she really feels, yet it
is really easy to see if you look hard enough. After attempting her first
suicide, she knew she had to wait another decade to try again. With the
words "What a trash/ To annihiliate each decade." Plath is saying that she
hates to wait until her next attempt, yet she must because she sees it as a
form of art and everything in art has to be perfect. A really strong poem,
it carries a lot of feelings and emotions, it is one of her best ones.
Maria from United States
Comment 6 of 32, added on December 11th, 2004 at 9:42 PM.
She is a brillent writter she comments on how many time she tries to commit
sucide 1 out of ten this signaled her to try to do it agian in her 30's
before she even tried it she hasn't manageg it yet and im not sure if she
thinks she is going to the e=next timeNumber Three is capitilized because
she hasn't done it a third time she wants everyone to enjopy her perfection
of her third dealth dealth is art and art is perfect when accomplished by
dealth is what she is saying when she said it happened at 10 she almost
drowned people don't know whether it was on purpose from her fathers dealth
or from a accident. This talk's about her father and her dad at the same
time
Taylor from United States
Comment 5 of 32, added on December 3rd, 2004 at 8:11 PM.
Brought back to life from death by Christ. See John 11.
Gloria from United States
Comment 4 of 32, added on November 15th, 2004 at 5:59 PM.
A historical approach can be applied, naturally, in terms of Sylvia Plath's
one struggle with depression and suicidal tendencies, in which she refers
to occur once a decade. Rebirth is a theme I get from this poem for
instance in the lines "The peanut-crunching crowd / Shoves in to see / Them
unwrap me hand and foot -- /", "The pure gold baby". Like ressurection or
something. She comes back from the dead, uses one of her nine lives. I
think the shift in tone, where at first, she takes responsibility for her
suicide attempt at 20, then makes comments about " Herr God, Herr Lucifer,
O my enemy, means at first it was all her who wanted to end her life, and
now, it seems something or someone is pushing her to think about it again.
Maybe her husband.
What is Lady Lazarus? Something to do with God or Christ or something?
Sylvia Plath is regarded as a depressing poet, but wow, I really like her.
Britnee from Canada
Comment 3 of 32, added on October 13th, 2004 at 3:09 AM.
This is probably the best of works by Sylvia as it is the easiest to be
understood. People trying to read Ariel can sit and ponder the poem for as
many hours as they wish, and still not glean as much from that poem as with
Lady Lazarus. The references to her depression and her suicide are so
glaring blatant that it would be hard to miss them. The references to the
Nazi holocaust are so poignant that it adds an atmosphere of familiarity,
knowing that Sylvia considered herself Jewish, whether she be of that
origin or not. The entire poem is based around her intent to end her life
and the passage she takes. The most interesting fact in this poem is that
it states 'One year in every ten', which I interpret to mean that it is her
3rd attempt and 30th year of life, and it is uncanny that it is in that
30th year that she actually succeeded in ending her life. A most poignant
poem by one of the greatest authors who never knew her own success.
Becky from Australia
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Its a theatrical, just as she says it is. The rush bleeds into her pen and
she is caught again by her wave. what saddens me is that everyone sees her
poetry as grim including her ex husband Ted Hughes, whereas she manages to
touch another vibe for me. its more or less like a farce that stays on too
long or an emotion that is very self expressive. hard to explain it, but at
least i tried! Here's to reading your poems kid. Its a pity you never knew
how much its made a difference!
Tanya from India