Part one of term paper
Death is one of the major themes of Sylvia Plath's poetry. Many of her poems are elaborate explorations of the concept of death. It was also one of her major preoccupations, as can be seen from the documentation of her life. She attempted suicide at various intervals throughout her life. However, the events in her life were not entirely resp ...

Part two of term paper
... a deeper insight on death. Her last poems,written right before she killed herself, give death a sort of cruel allure and her mental anguish is plain to see. It seem as if death is more than just an insistent fixation for her, it is more like a process or treatment. Like and enticing potion that will help her achieve some end. Lady Lazarus is one of her more famous poems, from a collection entitled Ariel (published posthumously). It is a poem reflecting Plath's own suicide attempts. Lazarus in the t ...