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In the first stanza, the "I am not cruel, only truthful" phrase reveals the mirror's personality and charter. Unlike humans a mirror cannot judge her with opinions. Sylvia Plath uses onomatopoeia to give the mirror human characteristics. On line five she writes "The eye of a little god, four-cornered" which shows that the mirror is given God-like powers over the women. It becomes almost an obsessive relationship between the mirror and the women because she looks to the mirror for comfort only to confronted with the truth about your youth wasting away.
The mirror triggers conscious and unconscious memories of her life faithfully. On line thirteen it reads "I see her back, and reflect it faithfully" once again showing that truthful charter of the mirror. Regardless of the fact she hates her reflection the women becomes dependent on the mirror, and on line fifteen you can see that relationship were it says "I am important to her. She comes and goes." The phase "I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions." Shows that a mirror is not capable of showing anything else, then what is put in front of it. The mirror shows no color and has no preference.
Although the mirror revels reality the women still clings to objects that blind her from the truth. In the second stanza, the phase "Then she turn to those liars, the candles or the moon" shows that the woman is attempting to hide her flaws behind the darkness. It is very clever that Sylvia Plath used the candles and moonlight in this poem because those two items usually are used for romance. While searching for her identity she contradicts herself by running away from the truth, instead of embracing it.
Even away from the mirror the woman is forced to face reality through nature. The lake is very similar to the mirror because they both reveal the women's true identity and honest reflection. Plath uses a metaphor to refer to the candles and moon as liars because they just reveal shadows, and they...
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Errors, March 21, 2008
Grader: gauchay, Grade: C
I liked the overall theme of your paper, but there were a lot of errors. To start with, Plath DOES NOT USE ONOMATOPOEIA to characterize the mirror. Onomatopoeia is the use of made up words to portray sounds, almost like an audible imagery. The word you are looking for is PERSONIFICATION – the use of human characteristics in relation to inanimate objects, or vise versa. BIG difference. Other than that you had some words missing which made it hard to understand what you were saying. One such instance being: “she looks to the mirror for comfort only to confronted with the truth about your youth wasting away”. You are missing the “be” between “to” and “confronted”. In the same sentence you change context from talking about the girl in the mirror (“SHE looks in the mirror”) to speaking to the audience (“the truth about YOUR youth wasting away”). Small errors such as this make your paper difficult to understand, and is distracting from your overall argument. A little farther along in your paper you use the word “charter” several times in an odd context…was this on purpose? I believe you meant to say “character” but I’m not sure. Also, there were several commas missing from sentences, and it was hard to understand your tone and shifts. Just as a personal preference note, I disagree with your last paragraph. She does use the term “terrible fish” to describe how she feels about herself, but I do not believe that there are any general stereotypes of fish being glamorous. I have never heard that before, and it is an interesting concept, however, most people think of fish as slimy, smelly, and gross. I have never heard them be described as “glamorous” before. Overall, I think it is an okay paper. If you cleaned up your context and punctuation, and researched your vocabulary a little, I think it would be an outstanding paper.