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I have no preconceptions.” This tells the reader something interesting because silver is something that we all picture the moon. The moon reflects the sun and the mirror reflects everything. The mirror also tells us that it has no before thoughts of what happens. In the second and third lines the mirror tells us “Whatever I see I swallow immediately just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.” What this means is that the mirror will take what it gets immediately and show it back exactly how it is, it will not show you something different whether it loves the person it shows or hates them. The fourth and fifth line state “I am not cruel, only truthful- The eye of a little god, four-cornered.” The mirror is not mean but tells the truth it sees everything in its area and does not hide anything. The mirror goes into detail of where it sits and describes its surroundings: “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 part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over.” The Mirror does not like being in the dark and feels that the faces of those it reflects takes away beauty that can be shown, as if the mirror is tired of showing Sylvia Plath’s reflection all the
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The mirror becomes a lake in the poem “Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, searching my reaches for what she really is.” The lake is the mirror showing the Sylvia Plath the answer of who she really is in life. She then stops looking at the lake and leaves “Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.” This is interesting because the Sylvia looks to other things to see who she really is even though she just saw who she is. The moon is similar to the mirror because the both reflect objects and they are both silver. The moon however does not show the whole truth like the mirror does. The woman goes to these things to “Lose herself” which is only momentarily works and is lost when she sees the lake again. The candles and the moon let her feel as if she were young again. The lake tries to give the woman the answer she seeks even when she walks away “I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and agitation of hands.” The lake knows that it has done the right thing in showing the Sylvia Plath who she is. Sylvia Plath cannot bear the truth and begins to cry; she constantly wants something else to make her feel good about herself, she longs to be young. “I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. She goes back to the lake for answers every morning and the lake is pleased to see her. The poem ends by the lake saying “In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.” This shows Sylvia Plath’s dislike of how old she looks. Sylvia Plath has been looking in this mirror every day for a long period of time, and she is realizing that she is getting older and she cannot do anything about
The mirror becomes a lake in the poem “Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, searching my reaches for what she really is.” The lake is the mirror showing the Sylvia Plath the answer of who she really is in life. She then stops looking at the lake and leaves “Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.” This is interesting because the Sylvia looks to other things to see who she really is even though she just saw who she is. The moon is similar to the mirror because the both reflect objects and they are both silver. The moon however does not show the whole truth like the mirror does. The woman goes to these things to “Lose herself” which is only momentarily works and is lost when she sees the lake again. The candles and the moon let her feel as if she were young again. The lake tries to give the woman the answer she seeks even when she walks away “I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and agitation of hands.” The lake knows that it has done the right thing in showing the Sylvia Plath who she is. Sylvia Plath cannot bear the truth and begins to cry; she constantly wants something else to make her feel good about herself, she longs to be young. “I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. She goes back to the lake for answers every morning and the lake is pleased to see her. The poem ends by the lake saying “In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.” This shows Sylvia Plath’s dislike of how old she looks. Sylvia Plath has been looking in this mirror every day for a long period of time, and she is realizing that she is getting older and she cannot do anything about