Analysis Of The Mirror

The poem mirror is written by Sylvia Plath. This poem portrays every women’s struggle against the lies of many ppl and the harshness of truth. Sylvia Path, a woman who suffered from severe depression from enduring hardships from her childhood and her relationship with her husband, Ted Hughes relates this poem with herself and tries to warn every woman to not judge how men look at them. She feels that women should not be superficial and learn to be less self conscious because appearances do not matter, it’s the whole that counts.

Plath managed to strengthen her ideas and emotions use many literary devices when sending out her ideas and. For example, Plath personifies the mirror with human characteristics and abilities as the mirror is talking in a monologue form in the 1st stanza. The mirror thinks very highly of itself but ironically, the mirror is actually very shallow and unintelligent. This can be proven when the mirror thinks that it represents the �eye of a little god’, thinking that it is very superior. However, the mirror is unexposed to what the world is really is because it has only seen the wall opposite it and the woman who looks into the mirror. The mirror also thought that the pink wall opposite it is its heart. Besides that, this stanza also shows juxtaposition, whereby the woman who is so vain and self-obsessed with herself ended up loathing herself as she sees the flaws of her reflection. The mirror claims that it is truthful, fair and free of conceptions. It does not see itself as cruel but direct and blunt. However, the mirror is actually confused about what truth is as the mirror could only see whatever was outside it. Hence, Plath is trying to tell women to not depend on mirrors to see the way they are as mirrors are just a reflection of appearance and mirrors aren’t able to tell them how valuable they are outside and inside.

In the 2nd stanza, Plath describes the mirror