I’m responding to the poem Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath. The poem first caught my eye when I was skimming it I noticed that “nazi” and “jew” were mentioned. Towards the end of the poem it talks about rising from ash. It seems to me that the narrator/poet may be a Jew who survived the Holocaust and she is talking about getting revenge. Such as she is a phoenix, when she mentioned “Out of the Ash/I rise with read hair./And I eat men like air.”. The poem also mentions god and the devil, “Herr God, Herr Lucifer” which may signify the difference between good and evil. Her being good, the “nazi lampshade” being evil.
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