Mirror by Sylvia Plath Analysis

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Mirror provides an adequate analyzation of how a woman struggles with the concept of growing older and losing her beauty. The poem battles the concept of how an object is purer than a human because of their vanity and deceiving nature. The mirror is personified and describes its honest qualities. Then the mirror describes itself as a lake and observes a woman struggling with the reality of aging. At the beginning of the poem, the mirror is staring at a wall and begins to describe itself. The mirror sees itself as “silver and exact,” and even describes itself as a “little God” who is only “truthful.” The mirror provides honest truth without sugar coating anything. People hold mirrors in high regard, almost like a “little God,” which shows how vain humans are. Later the mirror calls itself a “lake” and is observing a woman. The mirror becomes a lake because when the woman looks at the mirror the world becomes more complicated than just a wall, which is objective but the woman is complicated and emotional. The candles and the moon are liars who only show the partial truth to the woman.When the mirror says, “In me she has drowned a young girl,” it means that the little girl has lost herself and everyday that she looked at herself in the mirror because of vanity she lost herself and got older with the passing years. The poem deals with a woman who has to deal with aging who is often lied to my her fellow companions but the mirror reveals the truth. The mirror represents purity and wisdom while people are seen as immoral and lie. People try and convince the woman she is beautiful but in reality when she checks the mirror she notices that she is not and that she has been lied to. The candle and the moonlight only show half the truth and show off her beautiful features and cloud her mind. The mirror is not clouded by any emotion and only shows the truth. When the mirror
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