The central theme of both the poems is old age. Sylvia Plath and Jenny

The central theme of both the poems is old board. Sylvia Plath and Jenny Joseph express mail their ideas of old jump on through the poems Mirror Mirror and WarningIntroductionThe central theme of both the poems is old age. Sylvia Plath and JennyJoseph express their ideas of old age through the poems Mirror andWarning. The intention of Sylvia Plath and Jenny Joseph aredifferent. The message they want to get through to us differs. JennyJoseph gearing us up towards old age through Warning and Sylvia Plath devising old age sound terrible in Mirror.In the poem mirror, Sylvia Plath uses a lot of change and negative wordsmaking old age sound terrifying darkness drowned and terrible.Then she turns to those liars, the candles the moon in this sentenceshe refers to the candle or the moon being a liar putting a negativeimage. Where as candles and moons are know to be a source of lightmaking it positive. However the poem is very complicated to understandbecause it has a lot of hidden center s. She use a lot of vividlanguage and personification meaning bringing lifeless object to life,for example when she says Now Im a lake first line secondparagraph. The lady also portrays her life to be like a non-livingthing mirror, lake. This is because she describes her life to be lessobjective comparison to Warning. Here Jenny Joseph describes the ladyto be quite cheerful, happy, and looking forth to old age. There isa rhythmic pattern in Warning. The repetition of the word and and I shall goes on through out the whole poem. The word and purposeJenny Joseph is writing while shes thinking, as she goes alongperhaps. This is telling the readers she is looking forward to herfuture and old a... ...tive, uglier.The word terrible is used in both the poems. Mirror Like a terriblefish giving it a negative image. And Warning You can wear terribleshirts and grow much fat making it a positive word. The woman inMirror is dreading old age in fear of becoming uglier. And the womanin inform looks forward to it believing that it is fun being old,like having her youth back.ConclusionI think Warning by Jenny Joseph is more successful in getting itsmessage across to the readers. Her message is that old age can bereally fun, and after reading the poem I believe so too. On the otherhand Mirror by Sylvia Plath is also slightly effective but not asmuch. Sylvia Plath is trying to say old age is something to dreadbecause of how you may look but no everything is about yourappearance. Overall Warning wins for being more effective and lively.