Sylvia Plath is one of my favourite poets, and also one of my historical crushes. If I was to meet her I would totally fanboy like mad and go like Chandler Bing in that episode where Ross and Joey are dating the same girl who just moved into the building.
Anyway, I digress. This poem is full of rich imagery that many seem to feel conveys the sense of the tragic female literary hero, hurt, betrayed, and abandoned by her husband, who, in a fragile state of mind, contemplates suicide. But I think this is one of those poems in which a person going through personal loss tries to buck themselves up with the promise that they will rise and be stronger.
Sadly history didn't play out that way, but this is a powerful poem full of emotion and angst that appeals to many and is one of the first truly great feminist poems of the 20th century.
To read it, click the link HERE.
To hear Sylvia read it, click HERE.
And to read more about the life of Sylvia Plath, why go ahead and just click HERE.
To learn more about my own work as a poet, and to find out more information about my new book Oxide-Doo-La-Daisy, which will be released on the 15th of September, then check out the link to my site HERE.
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981 by the Estate of Sylvia Plath.
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