Amelia Willadsen
Laura Cline
ENG102
6 September 2011
Blog Post #3
The poem “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath stood out to me more than any other poem that was available to read. Throughout the entire poem were powerful descriptive words that kept me interested the whole time. I think the words that the author used is what kept me interested. Words like “flesh” or “eye pits”. I consider these words to be creepy or bone chilling. This poem could have many different thoughts to create the outcome. I enjoy reading poems like “Lady Lazarus” because it keeps the reader wondering throughout the whole poem.
I honestly didn’t know what to make the outcome of “Lady Lazarus”. She adds,
“I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.”
That part was a little confusing to me because before the author said that, I was thinking she has cancer at a young age and is describing what it feels like to have the disease. I didn’t know what to think after that statement. She writes this next stanza soon after and it led me back to think my original thought.
“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.”
I thought this stanza was very powerful. What could she mean by, "I do it exceptionally well?" I think knowing you were going to die pretty soon would be extremely scary to come across. The author describes it as an art.
In conclusion, “Lady Lazarus” was a fantastic poem in my eyes. I would be interested in looking into some more of Sylvia Plath’s work to see what else she has up her sleeve. Maybe she has more poems like this one or maybe she wrote some completely different. I would also be interested to look into this particular poem and get some questions that I have, answered. I’m curious to find out what she was really talking about throughout her poem.
