"Mirror": Reflections Of Truth
“Mirror”: Reflections of Truth
In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror”, the reader takes a look into the messages presented and compares them with the reflections that are cast in a mirror and images in a lake. When reading this poem, we discover that the speaker is the actual reflection that gives the interpretation of its views. The first interpretation is shown as a mirror on the wall “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.” (1), second as the water in the lake because she states “Now I am a lake.” (10), and third through the eyes of an aging woman that is revealed in line 17 “In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman/ Rises toward her day after day…”
In the first stanza the reflection personifies the ability to take in what it sees without judging stating “I have no preconceptions/ Whatever I see I swallow immediately/ Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike/ I am not cruel, only truthful…” (1-4). Many descriptions make the reader see through......
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