Lines 55-58 state: “With her lion's red body / her wings of glass / Now she flies / More terrible than ever she was, red / Scar in the sky, red comet. In these lines, her feminist attitude is revealed largely through color imagery. “Red” is used in lines 55, 57 and 58 to express one's independent desire, strength and power (archetypically, red symbolizes masculine strength, e.g. Mars as a red planet). The red lion queen emerging from all the worker bees echoes lines 82-84 of “Lady Lazarus,” in which Plath alludes to the Phoenix: “From the ashes / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air." Her allusion to the emerging "lion-red body" in line 55 achieves the same goal. However, in the same spirit, Plath also uses antithesis to assert her femininity: "wings of glass ».”