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Sylvia Plath - Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful --
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
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.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

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Mirror - Comments and Information

Poet: Sylvia Plath
Poem: Mirror
Volume: The Collected Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1961

Comment 60 of 60, added on February 20th, 2008 at 8:23 PM.

What is the meaning of the last two lines???

I don't want to know what they mean,
I want to know why she put them last and how it effects the rest of the poem.

javier robles from United States
Comment 59 of 60, added on September 14th, 2007 at 1:02 PM.

i'm doing a presentation in my engligh 3 class and i have read so many outlooks on this poem. it totally stinks its really stupid but i do understand it and plath is absolutley crazy

Brittany from United States
Comment 58 of 60, added on June 14th, 2007 at 7:59 AM.

Is anyone else doing A Level English? If so, I just got the pre-release material and this is one of the texts! So basically I have till Tuesday to research and know all there is to know about it. I love it but it's quite ambiguous.

Lotti from United Kingdom

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