Mirror Essay

Point of View, Personification, and Symbolism in Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” deals specifically with the feminine struggle of immortality. The poem’s speaker provides a window into the effeminate interpretation of deterioration. A woman's thoughts may forever be a mystery, but this evocative poem could give insight to the complex imagination of a woman. Throughout the poem, the speaker's point of view, the use of personification, and ironic symbolism all underscore the…

interesting poems, “Mirror”, in 1961; two years before her death. Sylvia Plath expresses her intense thoughts and feelings in her famous poem, “Mirror”. 1. Personal Life Sylvia Plath lived a very unhappy, short life. She was born on October 30th, 1932 in Boston Massachusetts (Koelsch,…

she closed her eyes and leaped into the frigid cold water to join her peers. Like thousands of other students, Mady Trummer had been jumping into Mirror Lake as part of a yearly tradition for Ohio State Students during the week leading up to the football game against Michigan. But for the first time since 1990, this annual tradition of jumping into Mirror Lake will not transpire. Construction on the lake is the main culprit, making it impossible…

discussion of target audience and values, the lyrics, symbolic codes of the people in “Man in the Mirror and the different races/cultures in “Black or White” and the effectiveness of how the “Man in the Mirror” music video is narrative and how the “Black or White” video is a combination of both narrative and performance, shows how “Man in the Mirror” and “Black or White” target a particular…

The idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden employs the narrative voice of a distraught partner to reveal the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of physical a loss, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of identity through the inevitable process of ageing as told from the narration of a mirror. The initial stanza of Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks” introduces the idea of loss by allowing…

There are lots of public service advertisements coming out every year and most of them are forgotten by the public after some time. However, there is one advertisement that sticks out to me: a distracted driving advertisement from Russia called “Think of Both Sides”. This particular ad was first created for the government of Ekaterinburg, a city in Russia that has around a million residents. Although it was originally aimed to be used in Russia, it became international and was used for many…

The Second Side of the Mirror: Anorexia Nervosa Many of us have been through a rough time in our life. Although, some people may have it worse than others. There could be drugs, alcohol and even weight gain. But, many people go through anorexia nervosa which is now gradually increasing. Anorexia nervosa as a disease, while others think it is a true struggle which cannot be helped. By my research, anorexia nervosa is a mental, emotional and physical disorder which leads to extreme weight loss…

I felt like I needed to be the one to break the cycle of depression, I felt like the author of “The Mirror” in a way. In “The Mirror,” Loretta Stewart states “Today, I’m glad I broke the mirror. It’s symbolic of my desire to break the cycle of failure in my family.” In my instance it wasn’t really a thing that had been going on for decades like in “The Mirror,” but it was still a cycle and I felt like if I didn’t take that step and try to break the cycle that it would just continue…

The story I have chosen to do this project is called the ‘’Mirror Image’’ by Lena Coakley. In this short story the protagonist is a 14-year-old teenager called Alice who undergoes a brain transplant because she had gotten caught in a fatal car accident resulting in her body being severely damaged and the only thing left working was her brain which got put in a 16-year old girls body who had recently passed away. The pictures I have used to create my collage all represent something important in…

fascinated with the idea of bending an unhappy reality into one where he feels normal. For this task, he uses the “mirror” in his head to deflect reality. In modern times, most doctors would diagnose Wade with a mental condition, and try to help him overcome his issues. Instead, he is left untreated and his condition negatively affects his identity well into adulthood. O’Brien’s “mirror” is what enables him to deny the world around him. In Verlyn Klinkenborg’s “A Self-Made Man”, a paper…