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| Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath | Summary and Question Answer |
Questions and Answers
1. Does lady Lazarus think about life and death? Describe.
Lady Lazarus thinks life as a painful place of selfish and controlling people. She takes life as an unwanted thing. She tries to give up life but people bring her back to life. The speaker describes her experience of living as a kind of torture almost as a kind of death. Lady Lazarus describes death as a kind of calmness. She thinks dying is more peaceful than living.
2. Write theme of the poem in your own language.
The major themes of the poem are death and suicide, Gender and oppression, suffering and performance etc.
4. What will Lady Lazarus do to the men?
Lady Lazarus is fed up with the behaviour of the Men. She wants to die. And when she tries to die every time someone comes and saves her. She is angry on all those men who don't let her do what she wants. So she says one day she will die. After death she will be ashes. Out of the ashes she will rise up and eat men like they are nothing.
