What type of poem is "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath???

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Mirror

I am silver and exact. 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-
The eye of the little god, four cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Answer 1

Hint: What would you say this poem is *like*?

Answer 2

Mirror juxtaposes the somewhat harsh, clear-cut mirror-given image of a woman against false witnesses and how this seeming obsession with image leads to self loathing. The poem’s discourse plays out rather emotionlessly by the all too truthful mirror which reflects the female protagonist’s comings and goings over time. An even colder and crueller reading is unlocked with knowledge of the author, Sylvia Plath. The carefully chosen words subtly cut a cold trail in this free verse poem which does not rely on any rhythm at all for the conveyance of its message.

Plath, was an over achiever all her life, despite being internally distraught from a young age because of the death of her father. This seemingly split persona led to her suicide at the age of thirty in 1963. Mirror reflects this inner turmoil and self-hatred. Considering this when reading the poem positions one to view the women in the mirror as Plath herself and is the only way to interpret the poem in light of the structural features, as will be shown.





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Answer 3

Not sure....can you post it on this page?

Answer 4

reflective.