Analysis of Mirrors

In the beginning of the poem it says, "I am silver and exact" (Plath). Which I guess basically means that it's a metaphor so people shouldn't take literally. If people took it literally than everyone would think of a woman that is silver and square.

In the middle of the poem it says, "Now I am a lake"(Plath). Which, once again, is a metaphor so people shouldn't take it literally. I guess that means that people should be pure to the core.

In the end the poem it says, "I am important to her"(Plath). Which I guess means that whatever the narrator is important to the minor character.

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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