Rebirth in Sylvia Plaths Lady Lazarus, Fever 103, Getting There, and C

reincarnation in maam Lazarus, Fever 103, Getting There, and Cut The Ariel-period poems of Sylvia Plath demonstrate her intrust for rebirth, to escape the body that was drummed into use by men and society. I give illustrate the different types of rebirth with examples from the Ariel poems, including Lady Lazarus, Fever 103, Getting There, and Cut.Lady Lazarus, the last of the October poems, presents Plath as the victim with her aggression turned towards her male victimiser (33). Lady Lazarus arises from Herr Doktors ovens as a new existence, her own incarnation, the victim pickings on the powers of the victimizers and drumming herself into uses that are her own (33). Linda Bundtzen also sees the poem as an allegory about the woman artists struggle for autonomy. The female cr devourure of a male artist-god is asserting independent creative powers (33). Plath confronts Herr DoktorHerr God, Herr LuciferBeware Beware. issue of the ash I rise with my red hairAnd I eat men like air . (Plath 246-247) Lady Lazarus after her psychic death became stronger than her actor Male- female antagonism ends with the woman defiantly asserting power everywhere her body and releasing its energies for her own ends (Bundtzen 233). While the outcome of the poem is positive, Plath turns on herself, identifying with her oppressor, and sadistically punishes her body in the bear upon ofrecreating it (Bundtzen 237). Plath did not see the rebirth surgical operation as a pleasant experience, scarce one that is expected of her I guess you could say Ive got a call (Plath 245). She, however, sees the benefits that come from her suffering and continues the process again and again. Fever 103 is also about a women releasing herself from... ...poems what she design she could not or did not achieve in life the readiness to do as she wanted, to be a mother and wife but not constricted into a domestic hell or to be pinned down by the oppressive society which did not accept her for being a poetess. She was able to still speak from within her deeper self by means of her writing (Kinsey-Clinton 1). Works Cited Alvarez, A. Sylvia Plath A Memoir. New York Harper and Row, 1985. Bundtzen, Lynda K. Plaths Incarnations Woman and the original Process. USA University of Michigan, 1988. Kinsey-Clinton, Michelle. Once Upon a Time. (Online) Available http//www.sapphireblue.com/abyss404.html , August 17, 1998. Perloff, Marjorie. Angst and Animism in the verse of Sylvia Plath. JournalOf Modern Literature. 1970 57-74 .Plath Sylvia. The Collected Poems. New York Harper Perennial, 1992.