Can you help me rephrase the poem “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath?
1) The mirror is silver, exact and four-cornered. It has no preconceptions. It is truthful, not cruel. It swallows whatever it sees, unmisted by love or dislike (How can I replace unmisted?)
It has the eye of a little God. It spends most if its time meditating on the opposite wall.
It has looked at it so long that it feels that the wall has become part of its soul.
It thinks it is part of his heart. But it flickers (can you suggest me a synonym?? It glimmers, trembles..)
2) Then the mirror compares itself to a lake, A woman bends over it (searching its reaches ??) to see what she is really like. The mirror is important to her. Unlike the candles and the moon, which the mirror calls liars, the mirror reflects her faithfully.
She rewards it with tears and an agitation of the hand (?). She has drowned a young girl in the mirror (???) and in the mirror an old woman rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Does it mean that the mirror reflects her in her different ages (youth in which she is now and old age???)
Thank you
1. unmisted - unaffected - not confused.
Look at the verb entries here:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/flicker
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2. reaches in that context - depths
agitation - trembling
She has drowned a young girl...means the young girl she was is now growing old...the mirror is truthful. Her real age is there looking back at her frighteningly real.
1. unfogged? unclouded?
Wavers? Sputters?
2. If the mirror is on the wall, how the the woman bend over it?
searching its depths?
You might find synonyms more quickly by using a thesaurus, hard copy or online.
It sounds like an older woman trying to evoke images of her youth in the mirror.
I hope this helps.
Sure! Here's a rephrased version of the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath:
1) The mirror is made of silver and has a precise, rectangular shape. It possesses no preconceived notions and presents the truth without being unkind. It reflects everything it sees without being clouded by affection or aversion. (To replace "unmisted," you can say "unclouded" or "unobscured.") It observes with the intensity of a small deity, spending most of its time gazing at the opposite wall. Having stared at it for so long, the mirror feels as though the wall has become ingrained in its very essence. It believes that it is intertwined with the wall in some way, but it flickers or trembles intermittently.
2) Next, the mirror draws a comparison to a lake. A woman leans over the lake, trying to discover her true self. The mirror holds great significance for her. Unlike the candles and the moon, which the mirror accuses of deceit, it faithfully reflects the woman. In return, she rewards it with tears and gestures of agitation. In the mirror, she has metaphorically drowned a young girl (symbolizing her youth), and day after day, an old woman emerges from the reflection, resembling a fearsome fish. This suggests that the mirror reflects her at different stages of her life, showing her both her current youth and her future old age.