The tone used in “Lady Lazarus” is gloomy and depressing. Nothing in this poem is positive or upbeat. Plath is obviously miserable, as one can see when reading this poem. She asks the question “Do I terrify?” By this she means, does her looks terrify? Her lifeless body is found days after she had just been laying there waiting to die. One could only imagine how horrible she may have looked and smelled. Of course she would terrify. One might believe that she wanted to terrify whoever found her. Throughout the poem she discusses other suicide attempts. Plath tells us how at the age of ten she almost died, she says it was an “accident” but the second ti

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