Mirror- Sylvia Plath?

Question

Mirror by Silvia Plath-http://vmlinux.org/ilse/lit/plath.htm

1. What images from the poem linger in your mind after you read the poem?


3. Why do you think the mirror is so vital to the author of the poem?

4. Explain what you believe Plath means by the line that the mirror is "not cruel, only truthful."

5. What do you think the author's THEME (her message) is in this poem? Why do you believe this?

Answer 1

1. The main image is the the realisation that the mirror gives her that she is getting old and there is nothing she can do to stop it.

2. Because without the mirror she would be unable to see herself for what she truly is and she would believe that she was still young and beautiful.

3. It's not the mirrors fault that she is getting old and starting to lose her beauty. It's just party of the deteriaration of life.

4. The theme of the poem is age and growing old. The woman in the poem wants to stay young and beautiful forever but the mirror is there to show her the harsh reality of life.

Answer 2

1 The pink walls
2. she is talking to/ about herself and reflecting on her life.
3.She is alone.
4. She has aged and she can not hide it because the mirror does not lie, and she calls the mirror god, he sees everything and she can not hide from him
5.You can not hide from yourself and age.Monotiny, depression,

You should read about her, she was an interesting woman,

Answer 3

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