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 truthful and does not have an opinion it is not
             deceitful. She uses God in the poem to say that God is perfect and so to is the image reflected in the
             In the second stanza she talks about a lake which can also be used to reflect an image like a
             mirror. The difference with the lake and the mirror is a mirror will give a perfect reflection whilst
             a lake wont. The lake can have ripples and will show a reflection but not a clear vision. The vision
             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. 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'. 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 wondered why
             she described the moon and candle light as l
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