Mirror by Sylvia Plath, 789-790. :: English Literature

Mirror by Sylvia Plath, 789-790.Why Silvia Plath wrote a poem roughly a mirror?Sylvia Plath was born on 27 October 1932, at Massachusetts MemorialHospital.She was an excellent student in high school. Her first poem appearedwhen she was eight. one time graduated from high school, She entered SmithCollege in 1950 on a scholarship.On 24 August 1953, she attempted suicide swallowing sleeping pills.Sylvia was readmitted to Smith College for the spring-semester 1954after receiving electro profane therapy treatment for her recovery. Shegraduated with honors from Smith College winning a Fulbrightscholarship at Cambridge, England. There she found Ted Hughes and got married with him on 16 June 1956. The year of 1958 was very stressfulfor their relationship. On the last day of school she found herhusband cheating on her with a young student.In April1960, Frieda Rebecca (their first child) was born.Later that year Plath became with child(predicate) again and in February she had amiscarriage . She also had an appendectomy, which left her stitched &hospitalized for a number of weeks. On 17 January 1962 Plath NicholasFarrar (their second child) was born. Late in September the marriedcouple decided for a legal separation. In October Plath wrote over 25poems and they were the best. In November she and her children movedto London where they had no telephone and the heat was no comely forthe cold. Plath spent most of her time in London very lonely. Thewinter from 1962 to 1963 was recorded as one of the coldest in Londonever. Sewer pipes froze and there was atomic reactor of ice and snow on theground. She and her children got sick leading her to a depression. On11 February 1963, Plath took her own life. She placed her head in a turgidity oven and died of gas intoxication.Why Silvia wrote a poem about a mirror?Silvia wrote this poem the same year she committed suicide. The reasonwhy she wrote a poem about a mirror is because at that time she wasdoing a deep introspection and she did not like what she saw, she wasafraid of growing older. She also mentioned her dismay of growing olderin another journal that she wrote.Quotations for supportWhen Plath was young she looked at the mirror and see herselfsuperficially she did not look deep into herselfI am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by get laid or dislike (789).But as Plath ages, She begins to look into herself deeper than just