t him go" (Gospel of John, 40-44). Plath's feminized version of the centuries old bible story still exhibits traces of the original. Lady Lazarus asks her enemies to "Peel off the napkin" (10) just as the original Lazarus was covered with a "napkin." Later in lines 16-18 Plath writes "Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me" as her Lady is also resurrected from a cave.
             Sylvia Plath's "resurrection" from primarily housewife and mother to passionate poet in 1962 also marks the arrival of Holocaust imagery in her poetry. In line 65 Plath
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