However, what is evident is that she describes a scene that is at once enchanting, peaceful and nostalgic. Plath opens her poem by commanding her reader to “Touch” (ll. 1). His use of long sentences rather than short, choppy ones makes his tone appear more like a request than a demand. Her choice of syntax gives a comforting feel to the poem as she asks the reader to "touch the glass with [their] fingernail", reassuring them that this will do nothing and that "no one in there will bother to respond” (11:6-10). Plath's detail in the opening stanzas when she explains that the scene took place "last year" and that "the inhabitants [are]...constantly busy" suggests that it depicts a painting or painting . Further clues to the painting are revealed through details describing "the waves of the sea...in single file" and a candid landscape where "the light falls relentlessly." Plath uses imagery to depict the picture as peaceful, with people carefree and devoid of real problems. She explains that the “residents are as light as a cork” and that there is nothing “bad-tempered intruder.” Throughout the remainder 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 imagery also becomes dark in the final stanzas, when "a woman dragging her shadow in a circle" and a "hospital saucer" are described. She 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 the hospital, due to a suicide attempt, reveals that Plath moved from describing the painting to describing the hospital and the dark emotions that overwhelmed her at the time. The fact that the woman "appears to have suffered some kind of private blitzkrieg" is linked to