“Lady Lazarus” is a confessional poem written by American poet, novelist, and short story writer Sylvia Plath. The poem was written during an intense burst of creative output in 1962 that shortly preceded her death by suicide, early in 1963. “Lady Lazarus” was among the collected poems of Plath that were published in the posthumous volume Ariel in 1965.

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