In Protean Poetic, Broe states that Plath spoke of her later poems, “ I speak them to my self….and what ever lucidity they may have come from, the fact that I say them to myself, I say them out loud.”(160) Writing to herself was a type of therapy, as was her suicide attempts. Sylvia Plath was an intelligent women who thinks that the root of all evil are men and gives a well rounded description of this in her writing and throughout her life.

Sylvia Plath was born to Otto Plath and Aurelia Schober in 1932, in Boston. Her parents were both of German descent and teachers at Boston University. In Literary Lives: Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin says in her toddler life she already became angry with the male gender, as her parents favoured her brother Warren over her.(4) Her inability to love the opposite sex started at a very early age. She grew up in an well disciplined home, where her father was the centre of her mothers attention. It is possible that Plath became envious of the power that men had over women which taunted her th

Each of the stanzas in the poem makes suggestions to men including the title, where Lazarus is a man, and brings us to believe she may be feministic. Broe says “to Plath, dying is the defeatest ritual of feminity“(176) and she wants the male audience to see how they cannot destroy her. She wants the male to see that they can bring her close to death, but she is more powerful and is able to rise again, for the third time. In “Bright as a Nazi lampshade”(2.5), Plath brings us to the horrible treatment that was carried out by the Nazis (men). She refers to herself as an “opus” or “valuable”, “That melts to a shriek.”(24.70), in the arms of the doctors and tormenting them when she writes “Do not think I underestimate your great concern.”(24.72). In this line she thinks the doctors are not concerned for her well being, they are just illustrating the power they have to revive her.

Sylvia Plath is a prisoner within herself and she uses images of the Nazi concentration camps and the Jews who suffered to express it. Her expressions of her inner depression was written in her later poems, which was therapeutic for her. Plath struggled everyday just to do what comes natural for people. The weakness she illustrated was blamed on the opposite sex, and ironically, at the

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