`Mirror` by Sylvia Plath

MIRROR ' BY SYLVIA PLATH

MIRROR ' BY SYLVIA PLATH

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1 INTRODUCTION 3

2 ANALYSIS 3

3 CONCLUSION 7

4 REFERENCE 9 1 . INTRODUCTION

Sylvia Plath was a celebrated American Poet . Her life was a mixture of gloominess and tension . In 1963 , she ended her life in her second attempt of suicide . Sylvia Plath 's poem mirror ' is poetry of surrender to an imagination that destroys life instead of enhancing it (Boyers , 8687686 , p

. 383 . Plath through her Mirror ' uses the techniques of personification , imagery , symbols , indicating similes and metaphors to exhibit the exact meaning of the mirror . This poem is about accepting her reality of how she really looks and her emotions and frustration toward herself , which exhibits her personal identity and reality as the main theme . The poet also compares the mirror to another subject simultaneously . Plath assigns the characteristic to the mirror which is indirectly applicable to the poetry as well , which symbolically describes the poem , while speaking about mirror , becomes a narration that reflects about her . The connecting techniques used that determined the content throughout the poem (Kroll , Judith 1976

2 . ANALYSIS

According to Freedman (1993 ) Throughout her personal identification the Mirror is often referred as a vivid expression of horrors of growing old , which being emotionless and limited both morally and physically and is the central theme of reflecting images that reveal her identity as a separate person . As per Roberts and Jacobs (2006 ) it refers about imagery where imagery recalls and recombine images , memories and mental pictures of sights . and emotions (p . 758

According to Annas (1998 ) A number of characters of Plath 's poems are caught between mirrors , not sure of what is real or significant and what is illusion .Her poetry springs from her own attempts to recognize and reconcile her own paradoxes , to one she found inside herself and the one she found in the world she live in , the tension between the self image of the poet and her acceptance of her reflection (p .6

A mirror is being explained in the poem as saying Whatever I gaze , I consume instantly ' in which resembles her image where she uses the word un misted ' to show that the mirror 's reflection is usually clear to one who looks into it , which offers a truthful and painful reflection where she compares the similes of growing old and young (Nancy Hunter Steiner , 1974

The technique of personification claims for itself a kind of non judgment and unemotional character which it appears in the first line of the poem I am silver and exact ' this first sentence represents the completeness of the speaker , almost as the reflection starts out perfect , followed by I have no preconceptions ' signifying she is motionless when looking at her reflection . As per Johnson (1997 . The Mirror possesses both human and non human attributes . Plath is constantly trying to make a separate identity for herself

According to Bawer (1991...