"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
...el, only truthful" A mirror, standing in one corner reflecting what it see's. No lies or trickery or preconceptions. This is explaining what the mirror does and explains it in first person. "I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness seperate us over and over." The long-standing relationship and an unbreakable relation with the opposite wall is challenged every now and then by faces and darkness. "Now I am a lake" From a mirror, she now turns into a lake. Now, although the surface can reflect whatever comes into its reaches, it is neither silver nor exact and there is alot of movement in a lake such as the ripples. This is her inner self. Her outer self as an aging woman tries to console in the vast deepness of the conscious inner self. She turns introvert in search for the meaning of li...