... a great deal of attention while going through the worst winter in a number of years was making it worst for Plath and she could not bear it any longer. Before her death, Sylvia would go to her downstairs neighbor and claim that she was going to die. In a biography of Sylvia Plath Ronald Hayman states "She stood there with bloodshot eyes tears ... used in the first stanza. The change is abruptly signaled by the presentation of a different type of mirror, which is the reflective surface of a lake. "This recalls the mythological figure Narcissus, who fell in love with his own refection in ...

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