Abstract
This study analyzes a confessional poem “Lady Lazarus” (23-29 October 1962), composed by an American poet Sylvia Plath. To examine confessions by discovering implicit meaning, embedded in poetic language, this study takes support from stylistic theory with the focus on Leech’s (1969) concepts as theoretical framework. This study exploresseveral employed figures of speech including ‘tropes’ (e.g., simile, metaphor, hyperbole, apostrophe, pun, personification, paradox, irony, onomatopoeia, symbol, metonymy and rhetorical question) and ‘schemes’ (e.g., immediate repetition or epizeuxis, anaphora and epistrophe). With these figures of speech, the author represents several confessional elements such as death, childhood, loneliness, rage, unwanted life, dissatisfaction, loss of identity, patriarchy, horror, suicide attempts, vulnerability, danger, trauma, suffering (physical, psychological, mental and spiritual), shock, revenge, empowerment, infidelity, rebellion, anxiety and rebirth. The study concludes that the stylistic analysis of Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” plays a vital role in understanding harsh biographical realities of her life with confessional representation
Saima Larik, , Ghulam Mustafa Mashori. (2017) A Stylistic Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poem Lady Lazarus , The ELF Annual Research Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1.
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