Before her death, Sylvia would go to her downstairs neighbor and claim that she was going to die. ... "This recalls the mythological figure Narcissus, who fell in love with his own refection in a lake and died as a result of this impossible infatuation- ("Mirror-). ... "Plath has good reason to use water imagery in these final lines, since it provides the same reflective qualities as the mirror, but also suggests depth, coldness, the unknown, and the threat of death by drowning- ("Mirror-). ...

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