Mirror by Sylvia Plath

A poem by Sylvia Plath.

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.
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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[DavidRandallCurtis]

Beautiful...  5*/faved

[Pamandymagic]

Thank you kindly, sir! ;-)

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[posypity]

I am mirror of concentrated glass. Eye reflecting eye.

Rippleless as a made-up girl. I am mirror of concentration gas.

Placid acid, broom's secret, stuck together girl.

[DouglasHall1947]

the best reading of this poem I've managed to find on any video site - thank you.

[binny17rajpal1988]

the story is about the author n when she had written the story after few days she had committed suicide ..............................­..

this one is my favorate poem

[queenofkool]

My Favorite poem by HER. Loved it. Love it.

[gsgirija4]

How can we save it in our computer???

Please help

[WildWiseWays]

Its amazing how women have different concepts of the mirror ,its like it puts the unwise to sleep and keeps the wise awake .

I wish she could have gone through it all ,at least for the sake of her son

Then sad endings may have not been following 1 after the other