Sylvia Plath

Mirror by Sylvia Plath

Read the Poem ‘Mirror by Sylvia Plath’ I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered.Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.It is pink, with speckles. I have …

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Denouement // Sylvia Plath

To read the poem, click here. While it is rooted deeply in Plath’s personal life, her poem ‘Denouement’ becomes universal in exploring the disillusionment from relationships breaking away and of a family life torn apart. Using an extended metaphor of a circus to present the sceptical view of a marriage for show only by bringing …

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