Explore some of the implications of the fact that the narrator of the poem is an imaginary character invented by the poet. Is this information crucial to a full understanding of the poem? Sylvia Plath...

Explore some of the implications of the fact that the narrator of the poem is an imaginary character invented by the poet. Is this information crucial to a full understanding of the poem?

Sylvia Plath committed suicide not long after writing this poem. Does that information add intensity to your experience of the poem?