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MIRROR

This poem is written in free verse and is divided into two stanzas. In
the first stanza the narrator is a mirror and in the second stanza, it is a
lake (a reflecting surface which acts like mirror).
In this poem, a mirror describes its existence and its owner, who grows
older as the mirror watches.
The narrator, mirror describes itself as silver and exact. It forms no
judgments, instead merely swallowing what it sees and reflecting that
image back without any alteration. The mirror is not cruel, only
truthful. It considers itself a four-cornered eye of a god, which sees
everything for what it is.
The mirror says it spends most of its time looking at a pink wall across
from it. It is as if the wall has become part of itits heart. The image
of the wall is interrupted only by people who enter to look at
themselves and the darkness that comes with night.
In the second, a mirror as reflecting surface continues that it reflects
anything just as it is. The reflection is precise and accurate. It
provides an exact picture of the thing in front of it. Feelings can often
influence how we perceive a certain object or person. Often such a
perception may be inaccurate or untrue. But a mirror does not allow its
reflections to be clouded by feelings such as love or dislike. Hence its
reflections are unmisted and dispassionate.

Because of this untrue nature, the woman cries and wrings her hands.
Nevertheless, she cannot refrain from visiting the mirror over and over
again, every morning. Over the years, the woman has drowned a
young girl in the mirror, and now sees in her reflection an old woman
growing older by the day. This old woman rises toward her out of the
mirror like a terrible fish.

Preconceptions - a preconceived idea


Mediate - think deeply
Speckles small spot of colour
Agitation upset
Terrible horrible

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