This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary
-- Speaker (Line 1)

Importance: This, the first line of the poem, sets the scene of what is to follow. Sylvia Plath introduces an interior world attuned with the mysterious workings of the moon. The mental world of the speaker of the poem casts a pall over the verse.

The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
-- Speaker (Line 2)

Importance: These lines from the second stanza of the poem depict a mental landscape. This is defined by gloom and opacity. The interior world of the speaker is both bleak and mysterious.

I simply cannot see where there is to get to.
-- Speaker (Line 7)

Importance: This line at the end of the first stanza of the poem expresses both solemnity and despair. In it the speaker suggests a moral despondency that transcends the aspirations of the Abrahamic religions. This line also seems to suggest the absence of an idyllic...