Mirror
by Sylvia Plath (1961)
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Personification
"I have looked at it so long" This personifies the mirror.
No judgement towards what is reflected on it, but it is honest
"The eye of a little god"
"I am not cruel, only truthful---"
"I am important to her. She comes and goes. " Once again personifying the mirror
"Faces and darkness separate us over and over."
The tone of the poem is a constant comparison between the mirror/lake and the person its reflecting. This is told in the point o view of the mirror
"Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon."
The line break here shows the relationship between the woman looking into the lake and what going on in her life being compared to candles and the moon.
The poem is split into 2 parts. The first part is about a mirror, and the second is about a lake. Both parts involve the reflection effect of a mirror.