lecturer talks about a weapon called burning mirror that Greeks used to defended themselves. She says that the points on the reading that support the idea that the story of burning mirror was a myth are uncertain. First‚ the Greeks were not technologically advanced enough to make a large sheet of copper. The lecturer refutes this point by saying that the burning mirror were not a single shape of mirror. The burning mirror could have been made with mirror pieces with the specifications of a precise
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If the mirror were not personified‚ the entire meaning of the poem would be changed drastically. The personification of the mirror allows the story to be narrated from the mirror’s perspective. There are several places in which personification is used to demonstrate the perspective of the mirror. In line 7‚ the mirror states‚ "... I have looked at it so long..." Mirrors can not look at other objects because looking is a characteristic of a living object. Mirrors can only reflect what can be viewed
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"Mirror": Reflections of Truth In Sylvia Plath ’s poem "Mirror"‚ the reader takes a look into the messages presented and compares them with the reflections that are cast in a mirror and images in a lake. When reading this poem‚ we discover that the speaker is the actual reflection that gives the interpretation of its views. The first interpretation is shown as a mirror on the wall "I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions." (1)‚ second as the water in the lake because she states "Now
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SYLVIA PLATH “MIRROR” Truth or lie? What do we prefer to hear? Abstact: The paper analyzes the poem “Mirror“‚ written by Sylvia Plath. What it wants to show are the multiple meanings which depend on the different readers. The paper is intended to show the importance of the “mirror” and its reflection of the person looking into it. This paper also explains how a poem can serve a writer as an instrument to describe her/his life and feelings on a sheet of paper. Silvia
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Mirror Neurons are neurons that fires both when an action is being done by a person‚ animal‚ or thing and when the person or animal observes the same action performed by someone or something else. These neurons have been observed in primates. They act and “mirrors” the behavior of the other‚ as though the observer were doing the acting. Mirror neurons are considered to do many different things; it is said that they may be helpful for creating social understanding‚ giving us empathy as well as
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1ere ES.1 Lucie Review of Criticism: “Mirror” of Sylvia Plath. Freedman‚ William. “ The Monster in Plath’s ‘Mirror‚’ “ in Papers on Language and literature‚ Vol 29‚ No. 2 Spring‚ 1993 pp.152-66. William Freedman describes “Mirror” as a search for the self‚ to discover one self in the person of the mirror. The fish that appears in the mirror is the dark side of the mirror‚ a devouring monster. The glass to Freedman suggests the woman writer. He also
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the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she ages
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The Distorted Media Mirror Look through any magazine in the front of a store‚ any billboard on the street or any commercial on TV and the image remains the same. It ’s the unrealistic‚ un-average people making the ideals of perfection unreachable for 95% of society (Berg 32). Throughout time‚ women have physically tried to alter their bodies looking for perfection. The saying "it hurts to beautiful" is the reality media encourages in our culture. Body image has been an
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‚The Happy Man’ The story I’m going to analyze is entitled ‘The happy man’ and it was written by Somerset Maugham‚ a well-known English writer. He was born on 25 of January in 1874‚ he was an English playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era. Now‚ I’d like to give the summary of the story. At the beginning of the story the author tells us that the narrator didn’t like to give advices. The narrator thought about life and showed his attitude
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Joshua Huling “Mirror” “Mirror” is a poem by Sylvia Plath. It is spoken in a first person style from the perspective of a mirror‚ and later a lake. A woman has been looking into both the mirror and the lake at her own reflection. She seems to be almost consumed with the reflection and later in life she is upset by what she sees‚ as she is ageing. The poem is rife with figurative language. After analyzing the poem‚ we find that the mirror is truth‚ indifferent to the woman’s ageing or what she
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