Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Is a metaphor found in the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath?

In ,
poetskillfully mixes a number of metaphors into the text along with the major literary device
she employs, . As the speaker is a mirror, many of the features it (or perhaps she) uses to
express aspects of identity or action are metaphors, or direct comparisons of apparently unlike
things.

I am not cruel, only truthful€ลก


The eye of a little god. . . .

The
mirror-speaker is not a gods eye, so saying I am . . . the eye . . . is a .


In the second stanza, I am a lake is both a metaphor and personification. Because a
lake can function...

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