Beware/ Beware./ Out of the ash/ I rise with my red hair/ And I eat men like air" (1321).
She returns from a suicide attempt "A sort of walking miracle, my skin/ Bright as a Nazi lampshade,/ My right foot/ A paperweight,/ My face a featureless, fine/ Jew linen" (1419). The jews were victims of the Nazis, passive victims. In the same sense of passivity, Lazarus (from the title of the poem) was brought back to life by Jesus without being asked if that was what he wanted. Plath in this context sees herself as the victim of men, reflecting her warning in the final lines of the poem.
She goes on to ask if her return terrifies those around her, whom she refers to as "the peanut-crunching crowd" (1420). She sees those around her as contemptible, as the enemy, as those responsible for the misery which drove her to try suicide, as t
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