Perspective of an Inanimate Object

There's a Silvia Plath poem called "Mirror" which is an excellent example of perspective in writing. I only use the 1st half with the kids (the ending is a little unsettling, but it is Silvia Plath after all). It goes:

Mirror -by Silvia 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 a part of my heart. But it flickers.

Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

I had the kids choose their own object to write about. We did bubble maps first from the perspective of the object itself-how would it describe itself. Then they wrote their poems. I think it's neat how they can give the objects personality.