A Dolls House
When I read mirror I understood what the author Sylvia Plath was trying to say. Sylvia Plath was an unhappy poet who often wrote poems that showed the negative view of life. In the end she ended up killing herself by placing her head inside an oven while it was on. In the first stanza she says the mirror gives off a perfect reflection 'I am silver and exact'. Just as is, 'unmisted by love or dislike'. She explains how the mirror meditates on the opposite wall which means that it is always facing a wall. She say it flickers that is from people walking in front of the mirror and cutting off the mirror sight to the wall. The poem needs little translation in the first stanza it is almost word for word. The mirror is
In another one of her poems 'Metaphors' she describes the process of being pregnant and birth. In all of the poems that I have read she has intrigued me, and made me look deeper than the surface of the poem to see a whole different meaning. She uses God in the poem to say that God is perfect and so to is the image reflected in the mirror. After reading the poem over a couple times I began to understand that the young attractive girl she once saw in the mirror was slowly changing to the older less attractive woman she has become at present. I believe that Sylvia was special and that is why she was able to write such amazing poems. I don't think she was negative but she just had looked at life from a different perspective than most people. Mirror was about how the author felt she was getting older and becoming unattractive. I understood the idea of the play but there were certain lines and quotes that I did not quite get. The vision will be distorted and out of shape. In the second stanza she talks about a lake which can also be used to reflect an image like a mirror. One line that I had to translate to understand was 'in me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish'. truthful and does not have an opinion it is not deceitful. I wondered why she described the moon and candle light as liars? I figured out that it is because in moon or candle light the mirror would hide people's flaws due to the lights being so soft, she would be unable to see herself clearly in the mirror and she would look better. I feel that the mirror was a metaphor to Sylvia she is saying that her poems are not negative but truthful.
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