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Figure of speech is any way of saying something other than the ordinary way.
For example:
~Sylvia Plath uses allusion in the title when referring to Lazarus, a man who Jesus brings back to life from the Gospel of John in the Bible. And she also writes

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair

Referring to her resurrection, and it also sounds like the phoenix, a mythical bird that bursts into flames and then is reborn out of its ashes.

~All throughout the poem Sylvia Plath uses metaphor to refer to The Holocaust. She wrote

Ash, ash—
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—

She might refer to the crematorium here were many Jews sadly lost their lives and how she imagines that to be her third death.

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In Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus," she writes about her multiple suicide attempts. She successfully committed suicide four short months later at the young age of thirty. I believe the connection this has with today's society is the need for more suicide awareness. The number of young people committing and attempting suicide is unimaginable. It is important as a society to be aware of the warning signs and to be there for our loved ones as they face mental illness. If someone would have noticed the warning signs, Sylvia Plath's life might not have been cut so short.

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Sylvia Plath was an amazing writer and painter. Her personal life had a major influence on her writing career. Plath battled with depression from the time her father died until her final suicide in February 1963, according to McGill (2017). The article goes on to say Plath tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills while attending Smith College. McGill (2017) states "her family hospitalized her in Massachusetts, where doctors tried to help her through psychiatric counseling and electro-shock therapy". Plath also speaks about how she was drained for seven years by her husband in the poem "Daddy" Plath (1965). "[Plath] learned that her husband was having an affair with the wife of a couple that had sublet an apartment from the Hughes" McGill(2017). "Lady Lazarus" was written a year before Sylvia's final suicide attempt which shows her mindset while writing this poem.

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"Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath is known for a writer who has written about suicide. Every ten years she can do this surprise act. The way the poem is shaped, it would understand the demonstrations. Some treat "lady Lazarus" like a radical feminism to challenge those who are against them.

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Sylvia Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. This type of poetry centers on extreme moments of individual experience, the psyche, and personal trauma, including previously and occasionally still taboo matters such as mental illness, sexuality, and suicide, often set in relation to broader social themes.

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"Lady Lazarus" has no set rhyme or metrical scheme.
Perfect Rhyme:
I rise with my red hair

And I eat men like air.
Slant Rhyme:
The big strip tease.

Gentlemen, ladies
I do it so it feels like hell.

I do it so it feels real.
"Lady Lazarus" has a lot of end stop lines through out the poem.
Based off the end stop lines and lack of rhyme throughout the poem, I think Sylvia Plath was angry and on the brink of exploding. The poem is written in 3 line stanzas which could symbolize the two times she almost died and the suicide she is contemplating.

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"I have done it again.

One year in every ten

I manage it——

A sort of walking miracle, my skin

Bright as a Nazi lampshade,

My right foot

A paperweight,

My face a featureless, fine

Jew linen.

Peel off the napkin

O my enemy.

Do I terrify?——

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?

The sour breath

Will vanish in a day.

Soon, soon the flesh

The grave cave ate will be

At home on me

And I a smiling woman.

I am only thirty.

And like the cat I have nine times to die.

This is Number Three.

What a trash

To annihilate each decade.

What a million filaments.

The peanut-crunching crowd

Shoves in to see

Them unwrap me hand and foot——

The big strip tease.

Gentlemen, ladies

These are my hands

My knees.

I may be skin and bone,

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.

The first time it happened I was ten.

It was an accident.

The second time I meant

To last it out and not come back at all.

I rocked shut

As a seashell.

They had to call and call

And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Dying

Is an art, like everything else.

I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.

I do it so it feels real.

I guess you could say I’ve a call.

It’s easy enough to do it in a cell.

It’s easy enough to do it and stay put.

It’s the theatrical

Comeback in broad day

To the same place, the same face, the same brute

Amused shout:

‘A miracle!’

That knocks me out.

There is a charge

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge

For the hearing of my heart——

It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge

For a word or a touch

Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.

So, so, Herr Doktor.

So, Herr Enemy.

I am your opus,

I am your valuable,

The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek.

I turn and burn.

Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

Ash, ash—

You poke and stir.

Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——

A cake of soap,

A wedding ring,

A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer

Beware

Beware.

Out of the ash

I rise with my red hair

And I eat men like air."

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In "Lady Lazarus", by Sylvia Plath, she portrays suicide as a powerful thing that can change people's lives, and death.

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At the time "Lady Lazarus" was wrote, there was a lot of tragedy occurring in the world. The Vietnam war was going on at this time. Segregation was also very much alive in the 1960's. I can see how living in such a sad time would lead someone into depression.