These famous lines from Sylvia Plath's famous poem Lady Lazarus are intriguing and full of mystery. We understand the words and also do not understand. Lazarus is the character in the bible who Jesus brings back to life. Lazarus death was artistic because he came back to life. Sylvia Plath considers herself the female version of the biblical character Lazarus. The poem begins with the line I have done it again. Maybe she means dying. Every ten years she dies. And just as Lazarus coming back to life is a miracle Sylvia Plath's life is a miracle too because she keeps dying. She describes her face as a jew linen? Could it be an allusion to the image of Jesus that got transcribed into a piece of cloth when a woman wiped Jesus face with a piece of cloth during the stations of the cross.
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