1. Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus
... wishes to see of the performance or the closer they wish to get to the performer, the higher the charges. The poem slips back into holocaust imagery with reference to "Herr Doktor", a German psychiatrist, bringing back the images of suffering of the Jews in the twentieth century. This draws parallel that out of suffering, Plath has become valuable, "the pure gold ... , ash-/You poke and stir./Flesh, bone, there is nothing there", the ritual death of Plath was likened to the burning of corpses in the holocaust in the gas ovens. "Herr God, Herr Lucifer", here Plath unites both heaven and h...
- Word Count: 1193
- Approx Pages: 5