Mirror When I read mirror I understood what the author Sylvia Plath was trying to say. Sylvia Plath was an unhappy poet who often wrote poems that showed the negative view of life. In the end she ended up killing herself by placing her head inside an oven while it was on. In the first stanza she says the mirror gives off a perfect reflection ‘I am silver and exact’. Just as is, ‘unmisted by …showed first 75 words of 518 total…

…showed last 75 words of 518 total…see it as a wonderful experience. I believe that Sylvia was special and that is why she was able to write such amazing poems. In all of the poems that I have read she has intrigued me, and made me look deeper than the surface of the poem to see a whole different meaning. I don’t think she was negative but she just had looked at life from a different perspective than most people.