Example: "Color of cherry candy" (Piercy 4)

In the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, the mirror itself is talking to the reader about itself and it's surroundings saying things like, "I am silver and exact" and "I am not cruel, only truthful" (Plath 1,4).

Ex: "In me she has drowned a young girl and in me am old woman, Rises towards her day after day, like a terrible fish." (Plath 17-18)

Example -

"Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall" (Plath 6).

The speaker of the poem is a mirror. The mirror is described as meditating which it cannot do since it is not a human.

"these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips." from "homage to my hips"

Example: "I soap him, the long, violet, cold feet, the scrotum wrinkled as a waved whelk shell so new it was flexible yet, the chest, the hands, the clavicles, the throat, the gummy furze of the scalp" (Olds 10-15).

Maggie Smith uses a hopeful tone in the poem "Good Bones" She uses diction like "could" providing positivity and hope for the future because not all is good.

Example: "Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon" (Plath 12)

"Barbie doll"

The title of this poem references the well known doll.

"Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one that would break you..." (Smith 10-12)

The speaker connects several clauses in a way that is not quite grammatical, using the conjunction 'and' to emphasize a negative train of thought.

Example:

"Barbie Doll"

"In the casket displayed on satin she lay" (Piercy 19).

- Example from poem: In the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, imagery is used to described the mirror and it's power through phrases like, "It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers" (Plath 7-8). This is mostly describing the sense of sight by using words like speckles and flickers.

"In me she had drowned a young girl, and in me an old women Rises towards her day after day like a terrible fish" (Plath 17, 18).