In "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, what is an example of figurative language?

byis one
of the great American lyrical poems.  The poems form is . Written in first-person point of view,
the speaker is the mirror.  The theme of the poem speaks to the honesty of the mirror and the
importance of being like the mirror in a persons life: looking at a person with complete
truthfulness.

The figurative language used in the poem begins with the
extendedthat lasts the entire poem.  The poem is divided by stanzas into two distinct aspects of
a mirror: the actual mirror and a lake.

The first stanza begins with the
mirror hanging on a wall reflecting whatever it sees.  It has no choice.  It is not
intentionally cruel when it reveals what it actually sees.  The mirror is truthful.  With the
correct lighting it sees everything like a little god.  The wall across from it is pink and
has become a part of the mirrors heart. When people pass in front of the mirror, it seems as if
the wall is flickering.

In the first verse, there many examples
of figurative language:

The mirror compares itself to a
"little god." This is an example of a metaphor comparing the reflection of the mirror
which reflects everything that it sees to a deity.

is used in the line:
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is€¦

This gives the
mirror the ability to swallow as if it were a person.

In stanza
2, the mirror becomes a lake. 

Every morning, a woman looks at
her reflection in the lake.  As time goes by, she no longer likes what she sees.  She uses the
tools of a woman to hide the aging process.

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

The false compliments are
represented by the dim lighting, moonlight, and the cosmetics. Finally, now when she looks into
the lake, she sees old age coming toward her like a terrible fish.

A metaphor
is used when the mirror compares the false compliments to the light of the moos and the efforts
of the woman to hide her aging with the light of the candles.

Ais used to
compare the mirror as it reflects the aging woman to a "terrible
fish."