What do we see when we look in the mirror? Does it tell how things revolve around looks and how others see us? I think that a search in a mirror is in the end a search for oneself. We identify ourselves by our physical presence. Many things reflect our true self and distort our image, as we want to see it? This poem seems to be a progression of age ending in death.
The "Mirror" seems to me a very powerful poem in that it takes the image of the mirror and leads us to feel that while we may come to know ourselves, it is merely a reflection. It is possible for us to ever really see our own face, and so by association, even our own soul. When we look in the mirror we are searching for proof of ourselves as physical entities, we look not only to make sure we are acceptable but also to assure ourselves that we are there at all. It tells how things really do revolve around looks because a great deal of the population in this world cannot seem to get passed that. This poem is a statement about society's image of women. Society places a huge role on women to look good, and I think that the "mirror" shows women that they do not need to wear make-up and dress fancy. We need to accept aging gracefully.
The woman stares into the water to see herself, but all she is really doing, in looking at her reflection, is witnessing the death of her youth and the appearance of an old woman whom she does not recognize. A search in a mirror is in the end a search for oneself. The old woman has just realized that her youth is gone forever, and that death is just around the corner. When the woman in the poem "turns to those liars, the candles or the moon" she is looking for acceptance and assurance that they still see her the way she wants them to. However, looking in the mirror herself, all she sees are the imperfections, the failures. The mirror is a very sad poem, because it confronts and dispels some of the basic ideas by which we live our lives.
Mirror Sylvia Plath (1961) I am silver and exact. ... She looks in the mirror for what little hope she can, but only finds the truth. ... Thus the mirror is not cruel but brutally truthful. ... The mirror is also a metaphor for Sylvia. ... Which symbolizes the frustration of the women feels when she sees herself in the mirror. ...
"Analysis of "Mirror"" "Mirror" is a poem about self-realization, despair but also truth. Through Sylvia Plath's strong female point of view, the reality of external beauty and youthfulness are valued above most things through the reflections of mirrors. ... Through these personalities the mirror is given an animate individuality that can exert power over others. In the last lines the simile of "an old woman/ Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish" is comparing the mirror to the reflection off the lake. ... She cannot accept the fact that through her continual look ...
The speaker of the poem is the mirror itself. ... In the fourth line of the poem, the mirror claims that it is "not cruel, only truthful". ... Thus, the mirror can provoke emotion from he or she if the image is unfavorable and therefore deem the mirror as cruel. ... In the fifth line, the mirror calls itself "the eye" (Charters, p.1105). ... The paradox of Sylvia Plath's "Mirror", is that the mirror is given life to reflect the image of aging, and the sadness of the inevitability of death. ...
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" ... So what is this, "mirror"? ... Using polished copper to produce mirrors, Ancient Egyptians also embellished the round face of the mirror with ornamentation. ... Like a mirror, windows also reflect images. ... Mirrors give us a second look at ourselves. ...
That is what a mirror neuron does, it reads the action and movement which fires the premotor neurons that represents the baby's tongue and priming activates the related motor cortex neurons that project the baby's tongue. ... Mirror neurons are neurons located in area 46 within the frontal cortex of the brain, our working memory and what enables us to transfer information from visual to motor. ... Researchers found a mirror neuron will also fire in an individual who is simply watching an action. ... According to the research the learning and improvements of motor skill performance...
The poem is narrated by the mirror, which doesn't provide an unbiased and impartial view on its character contrary to what the mirror claims. ... The statements made by the mirror are short, simple informative to convince the reader of the reliability and objectivity of the mirror. In the first stanza the mirror introduces itself. ... She comes and goes." states the value of the mirror for the woman and indicates that the woman is addicted to the mirror to the point where she's searching "for what she really is" in the mirror, despite the fact that the mirror is cruel and blunt. ...
Imagery and diction are very important tools employed throughout "Mirror". ... The mirror is often personified in this poem. The poet writes that the mirror looks and sees things, when in fact it cannot. ... In the first stanza, the poem is from the point of view of a mirror. ... "Mirror" contained many examples of imagery and personification. ...
In the poem "Mirror"," Sylvia Plath uses strong metaphors and objects as things reflected in a mirror. ... It shows that the mirror places no judgment; therefore the mirror shows what it sees and reflects that image. In the first stanza, the author sees her reflection in the mirror. ... The mirror is very important to the poet as she seeks the truth. ... The last stanza of the poem shows the intense need of Plath has for the mirror. ...
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fattest one of them all" If you can somehow relate to that little saying, you are definitely not alone in this world. Thousands of women and a growing number of men look in the mirror every single day and absolutely hate what they see. The phrase "Mirror, mirror on the wall" is a phrase that is used all the time that goes along eating disorders. ... However everyone who looks in the mirror always thinks that is how they appear to the world. ... When we don't like what we see in the mirror, we try to do anything to change the image we see staring...
