Lines 55-58 state: “With her lion-red body / her glass wings / Now she is flying / More terrible than she ever was, red / Scar in the sky , red comet." In these lines, her feminist attitude is revealed largely by the color imagery. "Red" is used in lines 55, 57, and 58 to express her independent lust, strength, and power (archetypically, the red symbolizes masculine strength, for example Mars as a red planet). I stand up with my red hair / And eat men like air." His allusion to the emerging “red lion body” in verse 55 accomplishes the same purpose. However, along the same lines, Plath also uses the antithesis to assert her femininity: “glass wings”