The personas depicted within Anne Sexton"s "Consorting with Angels" and Sylvia Plath"s "Lady Lazarus" demonstrate an open defiance of the subservient female role in favor of a powerful mythological identity. Each work chooses to use and extended metaphor to bring about a change in the perspective of the feminine role. The two works are interested in redefining the mythological identities to incorporate the female sex; however, each work attacks the process differently. Sexton"s "Consorting with Angels" first lines begins the persona"s experience with an admission of her dissatisfaction with her former role: "I was tired of being a woman/...
holocaust in World War II. "My right foot/ A paperweight,/ My face a featureless, fine/ Jew linen" in the early lines of the poem already indicates a sort of objectification.

The persona that Plath has created her persona to move several phases because "dying is an art" while the existence of the persona that ! Sexton has created is more interested in "the answer" to the gender of things. That the death of the self occurs in "Consorting with Angels" is a considerable focus; however, it functions with an air of positiveness that is not present within "Lady Lazarus"