{"id":8256,"date":"2018-11-30T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deconstructed.org.uk\/DeBlog\/?p=8256"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:03:00","slug":"sylvia-plath-lady-lazarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/?p=8256","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nClassic<\/p>\n

Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have done it again.
\nOne year in every ten
\nI manage it\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

A sort of walking miracle, my skin
\nBright as a Nazi lampshade,
\nMy right foot<\/p>\n

A paperweight,
\nMy face a featureless, fine
\nJew linen.<\/p>\n

Peel off the napkin
\nO my enemy.
\nDo I terrify?\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
\nThe sour breath
\nWill vanish in a day.<\/p>\n

Soon, soon the flesh
\nThe grave cave ate will be
\nAt home on me<\/p>\n

And I a smiling woman.
\nI am only thirty.
\nAnd like the cat I have nine times to die.<\/p>\n

This is Number Three.
\nWhat a trash
\nTo annihilate each decade.<\/p>\n

What a million filaments.
\nThe peanut-crunching crowd
\nShoves in to see<\/p>\n

Them unwrap me hand and foot\u2014\u2014
\nThe big strip tease.
\nGentlemen, ladies<\/p>\n

These are my hands
\nMy knees.
\nI may be skin and bone,<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
\nThe first time it happened I was ten.
\nIt was an accident.<\/p>\n

The second time I meant
\nTo last it out and not come back at all.
\nI rocked shut<\/p>\n

As a seashell.
\nThey had to call and call
\nAnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.<\/p>\n

Dying
\nIs an art, like everything else.
\nI do it exceptionally well.<\/p>\n

I do it so it feels like hell.
\nI do it so it feels real.
\nI guess you could say I\u2019ve a call.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy enough to do it in a cell.
\nIt\u2019s easy enough to do it and stay put.
\nIt\u2019s the theatrical<\/p>\n

Comeback in broad day
\nTo the same place, the same face, the same brute
\nAmused shout:<\/p>\n

\u2018A miracle!\u2019
\nThat knocks me out.
\nThere is a charge<\/p>\n

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
\nFor the hearing of my heart\u2014\u2014
\nIt really goes.<\/p>\n

And there is a charge, a very large charge
\nFor a word or a touch
\nOr a bit of blood<\/p>\n

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
\nSo, so, Herr Doktor.
\nSo, Herr Enemy.<\/p>\n

I am your opus,
\nI am your valuable,
\nThe pure gold baby<\/p>\n

That melts to a shriek.
\nI turn and burn.
\nDo not think I underestimate your great concern.<\/p>\n

Ash, ash\u2014
\nYou poke and stir.
\nFlesh, bone, there is nothing there\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

A cake of soap,
\nA wedding ring,
\nA gold filling.<\/p>\n

Herr God, Herr Lucifer
\nBeware
\nBeware.<\/p>\n

Out of the ash
\nI rise with my red hair
\nAnd I eat men like air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[746,1375,1376],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-depression","tag-poem","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8259,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions\/8259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ivetakrajcirova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}