Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath Flashcards
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Context
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- Plath finished the poem on October 28, 1962.
- It is part of the cluster of poems written in a burst of creative energy that were later published in “Ariel”.
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Form and Structure
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- It borrows it’s form from the poetry that WH Auden perfected: “Light Verse”.
- Plath turned this light, humorous form into an extremely dark and subversive form.
-Tercets
-Free verse
Plath composed this poem in an alternate iambic-trochaic metre.
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Language Techniques
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- Enjambment
- Simile
- Irony
- Rhetorical questions