Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror" is summarized from the perspective of a mirror. The mirror states that it reflects whatever it sees exactly as it is, without prejudice. In contrast to humans, the mirror does not experience emotions like love or dislike. While its truthful reflections may displease those who see themselves, the mirror does not intend to be cruel but merely truthful. A woman bends over the mirror, searching for her real self, but does not like what she sees and instead prefers illusions like candlelight. Though the woman dislikes the mirror's truthful reflections, she needs it each morning to see herself and replace the darkness.

1. English Project
Mirror
MADE BY:-
Rajnish kumar
Xth – B
22

2. Acknowledgement
First of all, we would like to thank our English
teacher, Mrs. Rekha Mirwal for her guidance
and giving us the opportunity to make this
Project. Secondly, we would congratulate
ourselves for the hard work, and the co-operation
we showed. We hope that our Project is up to the
mark.

3. contents
IntroductIon of Poet
IntroductIon of Poem
Summary

4. Introduction
Sulvia plath ( october 27, 1932-Februry 11 1963) was an
American poet ,novelist and short story writer. Born in
Massachusetts , she received acclaim
As a professional poet and writer .She married fellow poet
Ted Hughes in 1956 and they live together first in the united
states and then England , having two children together:
Frieda and Nicholas .Following a long struggle with
depression and a marital separation, Plath committed suicide
in 1963 .Plath is credited with advancing the genre of
confessional poetry and is best known for her two collections
The Colossus and Other poems and Ariel .In 1982, she
become the first poet to win a pulitzer prize posthumously for
The Collected Poems .She also authored The bell Jar, a semi –

5. It was amazingly heart wrenching. I
believe that that woman in the poem is a
young girl in the beginningófull of beauty,
smiles, and laughter. Nearing the middle,
she changes into the old woman that could
have been her mother. Many times,
children see their parents as "old". So, when
she morphed into this older woman, she saw
herself with wrinkles and age. A midlife
crisis, if you will. She wants to hang onto
the lies that people tell her - that she's
beautiful, young, and everything that a
woman wants to be. Desired, attractive,
intelligent - but in reality, her beauty is
failing, her intelligence will be sought out
with insanity, being desired is no longer in
the matter. To me, poems should not be
analyzed for the sake of keeping the
attraction to the poem. Analyzing poems is

6. 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 the 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 a 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.

7. Summary
Sylvia Plath through her poem ‘Mirror’ tries to reveal how human prefer
the world of
illusions. In this poem, the protagonist mirror monologuically narrates its
character. The
mirror says it is silver in colour and exact in appearance and has no prejudices
about the
objects that come before it. It says whatever appears before it, is suddenly
swallowed
without any alteration. In comparison to human the mirror does not have any
emotions like
love or hatred. The mirror says though its truthfulness does not please the
onlooker, it does
not have any intention to be cruel and it only likes to be truthful. The mirror
metaphorically

8. The mirror metaphorically compares lake, which has the quality to
reflect the object as a
mirror does, with itself. When a woman bends over the lake and searches
her real
appearance in it, she is not satisfied with the reflection seen. So she
shows agitation of
hands and her tears to show her resentment and hatred towards the
mirror. Then she runs
behind those liars, the candles and moonlight, which give dim light
unlike the mirror which
sees her reality and reflect it faithfully. The mirror says though the
woman dislikes mirror’s
character but she cannot have an existence without it. So each morning
she comes before it
to replace the darkness. The woman when she was in her youthful glory

9. bIblIograPhy
Literature Reader, CBSE (class X)
Encarta encyclopedia
Internet
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