International Research Journal of Commerce , Arts and Science
( Online- ISSN 2319 - 9202 ) New DOI : 10.32804/CASIRJ
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REFLECTIONS ON THE ‘SELF’:- A PSYCHOANALYTIC AND FEMINIST STUDY OF SYLVIA PLATH’S POEM ‘MIRROR’
1 Author(s): SAWANT SINGH MANTO
Vol - 1, Issue- 2 , Page(s) : 207 - 210 (2010 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ
‘Mirror’ is Sylvia Plath’s widely appreciated poem. A mirror is a significant reflector of the true being of the humans, which is mostly ignored by them. Plath uses this mirror as a means to expose the split personality of the people which results in a rift between their inner and outer selves. Thus, the introduction of these selves always emerges as unwelcome entities for everyone as people love to reside within the boundary of a mirage which makes them see what does not exist in reality. The character of the woman presented in the poem remarkably epitomizes the facts presented in the above lines. Interestingly, though at the surface level the poem presents the crisis of fading youth and beauty but at the deeper level this poem emulates the conflict between the inside and outside selves.