Mirror

• Poet : Sylvia Plath
• Literary Techniques:

  Personification

  Metaphor

  Imagery

  Irony

  Contrast

  Allusion
• “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions “ the mirror will not judge, assume
• “ The eye of a little god, four cornered“ The mirror never makes mistakes
• Later in the poem the woman smashes the mirror , seemingly upset from the reality of her aging.
• “In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises towards her day after day, like a terrible fish”- further emphasis on reality.