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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Mirror and Magnification Equations The mirror equation expresses the quantitative relationship between the object distance (do)‚ the image distance (di)‚ and the focal length (f). The equation is stated as follows: [pic] The magnification equation relates the ratio of the image distance and object distance to the ratio of the image height (hi) and object height (ho). The magnification equation is stated as follows: [pic] These two equations can be combined to yield information about the
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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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Representation of Women In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales he tells many different stories throughout the novel‚ discussing a variety of topics among the lines of marriage‚ sex‚ gender roles‚ stereotypes and religion. This novel was one of the most revolutionary of its time exploring ideas that no other writers were portraying in their works. Chaucer’s work opened up many areas of conversation now and during the medieval ages which Is why it is taught in schools all over the world. The novel
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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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“Never trust a mirror‚’ his mother had told him. ’They never tell the truth unless you make them.” Isobelle Carmody wrote this line in her book Greylands to show the connection between man and mirror and to provide understanding of one’s view of their life. Mirrors play large roles in many novels from many different times. Dating to the 1950s and farther back. Many authors include the symbol and presence of mirrors in their stories to show how the characters see themselves. These authors include
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Girl Before a Mirror shows Picasso’s young mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter‚ one of his favorite subjects in the early 1930s. Her white-haloed profile‚ rendered in a smooth lavender pink‚ appears serene. But it merges with a more roughly painted‚ frontal view of her face—a crescent‚ like the moon‚ yet intensely yellow‚ like the sun‚ and "made up" with a gilding of rouge‚ lipstick‚ and green eye-shadow. Perhaps the painting suggests both Walter’s day-self and her night-self‚ both her tranquillity and
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my teacher and H.O.D meena das gupta for giving me this bright opportunity to explore my creativity by giving this wonderful thesis topic on interior accessories . I gain lot of information on various interior accessories like candle stand‚ lamps‚ mirror‚ glassware‚ ceramic items‚ rug and drapery it’s uses through ages. It was really informative n interesting topic to work on and to increase my knowledge horizon. I am also grateful to my friends and people who supported me to work on this project
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Representation of teenagers in Kidulthood (movie) I am going to be analysing the representation of teenagers in the movie Kidulthood. The movie is about teens in an urban area of London and how their lives are; the storyline is based around a day off school because a fellow student committed suicide. From the beginning of the film we get a strong sense of how the writer wanted teenagers to be portrayed in this film. The opening scene is set in the school‚ with flyers being handed around about a
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development of the art of warfare. Historically speaking‚ all political communities of the modern type owe their existence to successful warfare.[7] Kings‚ emperors and other types of monarchs in many countries including China and Japan‚ were considered divine. Of the institutions that ruled states‚ that of kingship stood at the forefront until the French Revolution put an end to the "divine right of kings". Nevertheless‚ the monarchy is among the longest-lasting political institutions‚ dating as
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