Abstract
This essay deals with the notion and symbolism of death in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus.” She speaks of her suicide attempts in a very intimate way, because for her, the fact that she was revived, that she was the female embodiment of the Biblical Lazarus, was no miracle. For her, it was a return to a bleak existence of the real world, while all she wanted was to disappear and be let go. She alludes to the Nazis, compares her doctor to her enemy, all the while referring to them as Nazis, who stand as a symbol of the death of ...
