Rebirth in Lady Lazarus, Fever 103, Getting There and CutSylvia Plath's Ariel period poems demonstrate her desire for rebirth, to escape the body that was " used on the drum" by men and society. I will illustrate the different types of rebirth with examples from Ariel's poems, including "Lady Lazarus," "Fever 103," "Getting There," and "Cut." “Lady Lazarus,” the last of the October poems, presents Plath as the victim, with her aggression, turning toward “her male attacker (33).” Lady Lazarus emerges from the furnaces of Herr Doktor as a new being, her own incarnation, “the victim assuming the powers of the aggressors and devoting herself to uses of her own” (33). Linda Bundtzen also sees the poem as "an allegory about the struggle for autonomy of the female artist." The female creature of a male artist god asserts independent creative powers” ​​(33). Plath confronts Herr Doktor: Herr God, Herr LuciferBewareBeware.Out of the ashes I rise with my red hair and eat men like air. (Plath 246-247) Lady Lazarus, after her psychic death, became stronger than her creator: “The male-female antagonism ends with the woman defiantly asserting her power over her body and releasing its energies for her own purposes » (Bundtzen 233). Although the outcome of the poem is positive, "Plath turns against herself, identifying with her oppressor, and sadistically punishes her body by recreating it" (Bundtzen 237). Plath did not view the process of rebirth as a pleasant experience, but as one that is expected of her "I guess you could say I have a calling" (Plath 245). However, she sees the benefits that come from her suffering and continues the process over and over again. "Fever 103" is also about a woman who frees herself from... middle of paper ...... poems what she thought she could not or would not achieve in life: the ability to do what she wanted to be a mother and a wife without being locked in a domestic hell or stuck in an oppressive society that did not accept her as a poet. She was able to “still speak about her ‘deepest self’ through her writing” (Kinsey-Clinton 1). Works Cited Alvarez, A. Sylvia Plath: A Memoir. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. Bundtzen, Incarnations of Lynda K. Plath: Woman and the Creative Process. United States: University of Michigan, 1988. Kinsey-Clinton, Michelle. Once upon a time. (Online) Available at http://www.sapphireblue.com/abyss404.html, August 17, 1998. Perloff, Marjorie. "Angst and animism in the poetry of Sylvia Plath". Journal of Modern Literature. 1970: 57-74. Plath Sylvia. The collected poems. New York: Harper perennial plant, 1992.