The Reflection Of A Mirror By Sylvia Plath
Mirror Response When you look into a mirror, what do you see? Do you see someone you’re proud of or do you see someone staring back at you as if they’re someone you don’t know? “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions,” is the first line in Sylvia Plath’s poem. This line is significant because the poem Mirror is written as if it’s from the mirrors point of view. Understanding in depth of this poem can be tricky unless you personally connect to it, which I do. Once you make that initial connection you can start to understand and analyze this poem, among other poems. What first grabs my attention is how Plath starts off the poem by describing the mirror. “Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike” (line 3). This means that the mirror …show more content…
Just knowing that a lake reflects it so important because I always looked into the reflection of any reflecting objects, including bodies of water. “Searching my reaches for what she really is,” is in line 11 and it’s something that I feel like most people can connect to. We’re always searching for the answers to the questions that just can’t be answered, but we still search. However, you don’t have to look too far because this line can make you ask yourself why do we look into mirrors or reflections? Now, that question is something that I ask myself all the time. I, over and over again, tell myself that my body and my face are not what makes me who I am, instead it’s my …show more content…
I believe that is showing how anxious this woman is, and how she can’t wait for the answers she’s looking for. But, she’s not happy with the answers that the lake is giving her. With that being said, she may not be satisfied, but she still turns back at it and moves on with her life. So, the lake feels like it has been rewarded because it made a difference by the tears, but is upset when the girl “physically” hurts the lake by putting its hands into it. “I am important to her. She comes and goes” (line 15). I believe this means that the reflection of the lake is controlling this young girl. In my life, I have been defined so much by a mirror, I cry when I look right into it, but for some odd reason I look into it again and
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