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

Rebirth in Lady Lazarus, Fever 103, Getting There, and Cut The Ariel-period numberss of Sylvia Plath demonstrate her desire for rebirth, to escape the body that was drummed into use by men and society. I will 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 moody towards her male victimizer (33). Lady Lazarus arises from Herr Doktors ovens as a new being, her own incarnation, the victim taking on the powers of the victimizers and drumming her egotism into uses that are her own (33). Linda Bundtzen also sees the poem as an allegory about the woman artists struggle for autonomy. The womanly creature of a male artist-god is asserting independent creative powers (33). Plath confronts Herr DoktorHerr God, Herr LuciferBeware Beware. protrude of the ash I rise with my red hairAnd I eat men like air. (Plath 2 46-247) Lady Lazarus after her psychic death became stronger than her creator Male- female antagonism ends with the woman defiantly asserting power over 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 process ofrecreating it (Bundtzen 237). Plath did not see the rebirth process as a pleasant experience, but 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 thought she could not or did not obtain in life the ability to do as she wanted, to be a mother and wife but not constricted into a domestic funny farm or to be pinned down by the oppressive society which did not accept her for being a poetess. She was able to sti ll speak from within her deeper self through 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 Creative 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 poesy of Sylvia Plath. JournalOf Modern Literature. 1970 57-74 .Plath Sylvia. The Collected Poems. New York Harper Perennial, 1992.