Sylvia Plath and Warsan Shire are two of the many outstanding poets of the 20th century. Within their poems, they express themselves as a form of confessional piece to give the readers a first hand source of what the situation or condition of what they are talking about is. Sylvia Plath’s “The Mirror” and Warsan Shire’s “Ugly” both carry a theme within them. In my opinion, I believe that both poems expressed a sense of transformation and acceptance among them. Plath’s poem more talks about transformation done to yourself while Shire’s poem talks about acceptance with your flaws. In Warsan Shire’s “Ugly”, the author sets a scene that shows how this girl is seen as ugly and she battles with that one word against her. Throughout the poem, Shire lists metaphors of what her life was about like her face was like a riot, and her hands like a civil war. And continues to list her teeth like small colonies, etc… In the end, she completely changes the message of the poem from showing us that a human was built with immeasurable flaws (maybe some not discovered by yourself) and shows us that we should just accept these flaws as a form of pride. This shows the …show more content…
The first is a normal view at herself then the second side is the dramatic change. The theme of this is a transformation from a young girl to an elder lady (as stated in the poem). The process of this poem starts of with a woman in a bathroom seeing what is exactly in front of her, her reflection. The theme does come out clearly in the second section of the poem where the poet says she is by a lake seeing another woman as her reflection and doesn't like what she sees. The ending of this poem shows the transformation “In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman, Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.”, (The Mirror; l. 17-18). Plath might just be saying to us that it should be a good thing to accept change in