Lady Lazarus

Stylistic Devices in brothel keeper Lazarus by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath uses a various array of stylistic devices in Lady Lazarus, among them allusion,
apostrophe, extended metaphor, and irony, in determine to develop the speaker as a character. Those triad poetic devices are particularly evident in lines 65-79 ofLady Lazarus.
In the New Testament of the Bible, Lazarus is a man who rises from the defunct at the command of Jesus Christ (John 11:38). The form of ring of this poem, Lady Lazarus(the Lady without a doubt referring to Plath herself, as this is an lesson of confessional poetry; the Lazarus being an allusion to the biblical figure) is an accurate indicator of the subject field of the poem. Lady Lazarus is about Plaths third attempt at suicide, and her resultant resurrection. In lines 65-79, Plath develops the speakers contempt for the doctors who brought her back to life. Through this, Plath develops the characters paranoia.
In lines 65-66 Plath uses apostrophe to address those doctors: So, so, Herr Doktor / So, so Herr Enemy. To her, the doctors are enemies- in the stanza previous to this line, she establishes the doctors as to the highest degree vulture-like. Lines 61-64 state, And there is a press, a very large charge / For a word or a touch / Or a bit of blood / Or a plot of ground of hair on my clothes.



Assonance (charge, large charge) is apply in this example in a mocking panache towards the doctors. Lines 67-68 establish the speakers fear that her fate is being used by the doctors for gain in the field of science: I am your opus / I am your valuable. Later, the speaker-characters contempt of the doctors that Plath has established is tie in to a Nazi allusion, which augments this concept. In lines 73-78, Plath writes, Ash, ash--- / You poke and shake off / Flesh, bone, there is nothing there--- / A cake of soap / A wedding ring / A florid filling. This allusion to Nazis (wedding rings and gold fillings were harvested from the imprisoned Jews during the Holocaust, and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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