Question

Write the summary of the poem 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath.

Answer 1

In this poem, a mirror describes its existence and its owner, who grows older as the mirror watches.

The mirror first describes itself as “silver and exact.” It forms no judgments, instead merely swallowing what it sees and reflecting that image back without any alteration. The mirror is not cruel, “only truthful.” It considers itself a four-cornered eye of a god, which sees everything for what it is.

Sylvia Plath: Poems Summary and Analysis of "Mirror"Buy Study Guide SummaryIn this poem, a mirror describes its existence and its owner, who grows older as the mirror watches.The mirror first describes itself as “silver and exact.” It forms no judgments, instead merely swallowing what it sees and reflecting that image back without any alteration. The mirror is not cruel, “only truthful.” It considers itself a four-cornered eye of a god, which sees everything for what it is. Most of the time, the mirror looks across the empty room and meditates on the pink speckled wall across from it. It has looked at that wall for so long that it describes the wall as “part of my heart.” The image of the wall is interrupted only by people who enter to look at themselves and the darkness that comes with night.The mirror imagines itself as a lake. A woman looks into it, trying to discern who she really is by gazing at her reflection. Sometimes, the woman prefers to look at herself in candlelight or moonlight, but these are “liars” because they mask her true appearance. Only the mirror (existing here as lake) gives her a faithful representation of herself. Because of this honesty, the woman cries and wrings her hands. Nevertheless, she cannot refrain from visiting the mirror over and over again, every morning. Over the years, the woman has “drowned a young girl” in the mirror, and now sees in her reflection an old woman growing older by the day. This old woman rises toward her out of the mirror like “a terrible fish.”

Answer 2

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                         SUMMARY OF THE POEM "MIRROR"

        a mirror is made to narrate his experience . it says that it has no ides or opinions on the basis of its likes and dislikes. it takes in immediately whatever it sees without being influenced by love or dislike. like a truthful god, it reflects the exact image of everything that it sees.

       it keeps itself occupied by meditating at the opposite wall most of the time. in fact, it has looked at the wall for so long that the wall seems to have become a part of its heart. sometimes faces and darkness come between it and the wall. then the wall appears flickering. now the mirror is transformed into a lake. each morning a woman bends over the lake and sees what she really is. then she turns to the moon and candles. these liars give her the illusion that she is still young. but the lake mirrors her faithfully. she is disturbed and leaves in tears. nevertheless , the lake is important to her. in this lake she has drowned a young girl and watched an old women emerging form it towards her. she is filled with terror at this cruel reality.

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