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1) Throughout the poem, Sylvia Plath uses personficiation to give life to the mirror. What state of mind and attitutde does the mirror possess? Using specific examples, what is the mirror's emotional state of mind, and what does it seek from the woman who is captured in its prison?

 

2) The poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, is written in the perspective of the mirror. What is the woman's and others that look into the mirror persepective of the mirror? Using the poem, how do they see the mirror?

 

 

"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

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