Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. ... Plath suffered from depression for much of her adult life, and in 1963, at age thirty, she committed suicide. ... Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" uses the Jews' insufferable torture and helplessness during the Holocaust, to express her feelings and thoughts on her love-hate relationship with death. Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" is written in short, three-line stanzas, which offer quick and roughly descriptive details. ... The poem "Lady Lazarus," by Sylvia Plath, use...

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