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Mirror by Sylvia Plath is a brilliant poem created out of the complexity of the various uses of figures of speech. Through the use of metaphorical and figurative language Plath develops a poem with a literal meaning as well as a figurative one. This is a poem about the qualities and functions of a mirror, and its lack of "preconceptions" concerning physical appearance and a pure reflection of one's inner self.
Plath uses personification throughout this poem in order to have a mirror describe its relationship with a woman. The narrator of the poem is a mirror. The mirror tells the reader, “...I mediate on the opposite wall...I think it is a part of my heart”. In this poem it is the mirror that possesses the ability to meditate, has a heart and secret reaches, all which are capabilities or characteristics of a living person. This is what personification is, the representation of an object as a person. Through this poem Plath is speaking to the reader as a mirror. This mirror posses...