I Am Not Cruel, Only Truthful

"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful –"
-Sylvia Plath

This is the first stanza of "Mirror" which is the poem I must analyze for class. These first couple lines are awesome. The speaker, which is a mirror, blankly states what it does. It sees things and reflects them without choice. I love the concept that the mirror is only truthful. You may not always like what it shows you, but it is not altered by the worlds opinions and love and hate, it is honest, even when you don't want it to be. We are so used to fraud opinions and the bitter truth is often sugar coated with white lies, that the mirror is a reality check because it only knows what is right in front of it, and nothing else.

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