Day 47

Objective:  The students will read and analyze a poem by Sylvia Plath.

1.  Roll Quiz on Frankenstein worth 20 points.

2.  Allusion Notes (Narcissus)

3.  Read "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnHcCIObIcE

4.  Complete the TTSTCANDI in GC

 

Week 1:

Monday:  All Letters

Tuesday:  Chaps. 1-2

Wednesday:  Chaps. 3-4

Thursday: Chaps. 5-6

Friday: Chapter 7

“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath

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 ‚

The eye of a little god, four-cornered.

Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.

It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long

I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.

Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.