However, what is obvious is that she describes a scene that is at once enchanting, peaceful, and nostalgic. Plath opens her poem by commanding the reader to "touch him" (ll. 1). His use of long rather than short, choppy sentences makes his tone sound more like a request than a request. His choice of syntax gives a comforting feel to the poem as he asks the reader to "poke the glass with his fingernail" reassuring him that it will do nothing and "no one in there [will] bother to answer" (l. 6-10). Plath's details in the opening stanzas when she explains that the scene took place "last year" and that "the inhabitants [are]...perpetually occupied" suggest that she is depicting a picture or painting. Further clues about the painting are revealed through details describing “the waves of the sea… in single file” and a candid landscape where “the light falls without respite.” Plath uses imagery to represent the painting as peaceful, with people who are carefree and have no real problems. He explains that the "inhabitants [as] light as a cork" and nothing "bordering on the bad mood." Throughout the rest of the poem, Plath's imagery develops a more morbid and intense tone. The change in tone suggests that the author may have feelings of jealousy towards the characters in the picture and their lifestyle. The images also become dark in the final stanzas, when “a woman dragging her shadow in a circle” and a “hospital plate” are described. He also makes the disturbing comparison of a woman to a “fetus in a bottle”. The change in imagery and the fact that Plath wrote this after being released from hospital, due to a suicide attempt, reveals that Plath moved from describing the painting to providing details about the hospital and the sad emotions that overwhelmed her at that moment. This refers to the fact that the woman “seems to have undergone a sort of private blitzkrieg”.