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
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