... the way that a watchmaker created a new gold watch. One of her more imagery-driven stanzas comes throughout lines ten-twelve. It begins, "All night your moth-breath/", taking the silent action of a moth's wings and explaining the child's quiet breath. Line eleven reads, "Flickers among the ... to the moth's wings in the previous metaphor while the flat pink roses are speaking of the flatness of wallpaper covering the child's room. The twelfth line and last of the stanza goes, "A far sea moves in my ear." (Plath). The only conclusion I can reach from this ... at all of the different imag...

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