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Poem Mirror by Sylvia Plath is about the ‘honest’ nature of the mirror. The poetess has personified mirror line 1 “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions” to convey the fact that mirror shows what comes before it exactly the same.

Line 5 “The eye of a little god, four-cornered.” where Sylvia Plath compares mirror to God tells the reader that mirror is as infallible as God who represents nothing but truth.

Lines 12 “Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon” and line 13 “I see her back, and reflect it faithfully” tell the reader how a lake, which can reflect whatever comes before it, is not as honest as the mirror. While ‘liars’ denotes dishonest nature of the lake, ‘faithfully’ refers the honest quality of the mirror.

Line 13 “I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.” are the words of the mirror spoken about the woman who comes before it to see how she looks. The personification helps the reader visualize mirror as a human being who lends a ‘helping hand’ to those in need of care and help.

Line 14 “She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.” tells us the hurt feelings of the mirror as the woman does not appreciate its honesty but instead shows her anger and displeasure by tears and agitation of hands. By Personifying the mirror Plath is able to expresses the “feelings” of an 'honest 'object which no one cares.

Simile presents a fairly old aged woman as a terrible fish, line 18 “…like a terrible fish.” As the person grows older and older the skin turns more and more hard and wrinkles on the face are seen going everywhere to everywhere. This, the mirror says is similar to a fully grown fish whose exterior is rough with scales all over. “Terrible” before fish probably refers to the pale, shrunken face of a woman who is probably in her late sixties.