The Anger in Sylvia Plaths Poetry

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Plath 's Anger

Examining Sylvia Plath 's Anger in the Poems Lady Lazarus ' and Daddy

As with most poets , Sylvia Plath 's life greatly influenced her writing This is true not only in style but in subject matter . Plath pulled elements of her life (her marriage with Ted Hughes and her growing up with her father ) and placed them in the context of her poetry . It may safely be surmised then , that the anger with which a reader finds embedded in Plath

's work , was also found in Plath 's life . This essay will seek to find the route of Plath 's anger and to develop a thesis which examines this anger and finds concrete examples as proof in her poetry . The essay will examine two poems of Plath 's body of work : Lady Lazarus and Daddy

Plath 's Lady Lazarus begins with the idea of resurrection . The story of Lazarus in the bible is that he is the only man Christ raises from the dead and allows into heaven . The story is that Christ spoke an incantation over Lazarus ' body which allowed the man to be revived and he was taken bodily into heaven . Thus , he was spared a second death . In Plath 's poem , it may safely be surmised that the narrator too is someone revived from death , as Plath writes

And like the cat I have nine times to die

This is Number Three (Plath lines 21-22

Thus , the narrator states...