As this article has already mentioned, the poem's fixation – clearly indicated by the title, the very last stanza and the content in between – is on the extraordinary resurrections by Lady Lazarus. Lady Lazarus considers herself a sort of master of death, claiming that she dies "exceptionally well",[28] but nevertheless only does so to the extent that it "feels real".[29] Despite the irony that the same person who claims to die "exceptionally well" has only one "accidental"[30] brush with death and a failed suicide attempt, during which she "s 'is closed/Like a shell',[31] "meaning/For….will not return at all",[32] the very attribute for which she boasts – that attribute being her ability to escape death – is actually attributable to the very people she considers her enemies. In the case of her suicide attempt, Lady Lazarus only survives because "they had to call and call/And remove the worms like sticky pearls." » [33] Reduced to the essentials, Lady Lazarus' second brush is therefore with death is nothing more than a suicide attempt that failed because others intervened and resuscitated her. It should now be quite clear that the comparison of Lady Lazarus to a phoenix is ​​nothing more than illusory grandeur; it's no different from a woman claiming to be an expert swimmer - a Lady Michael Phelps, if you will - after attempting to swim in dangerous waters and only surviving because she was rescued from