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please explain this stanza

From 'MIRROR'

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Answer 1

the meaning of the stanza is that the mirror will show you what it see no matter you love it you dislike it it's always show you the truth the mirror is saying that it is not cruel it's just it's telling the truth always show yourself without any effort in it

Answer 2

Hey!

This is my explanation of that stanza and it is not a copied answer!

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I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

We know mirrors don't talk – but that just makes us more curious about what this mirror is going to say.

We know from looking at them that mirrors are silver and give an exact reflection of what is in front of them.

Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.

To figure out this line, it helps to think of what mirrors do to everything they see – they reflect it. Swallowing everything, then, is a metaphor for reflecting everything.

The substitution of "swallowing" for "reflecting" makes this mirror seem human. It appears hungry to us, and a little unforgiving and scary. We certainly don't want to be swallowed by our mirrors.

Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike

The mirror, in line 5, is comparing itself to the eye of a "little god." Indeed, the mirror is getting a little high and mighty here, saying that it's powerful. It's also saying something about what it thinks a god is like – not cruel, but truthful.

Notice that the word "god" isn't capitalized in this line: it could refer to any god, even one in the guise of a mirror.

I am not cruel, only truthful –

Here the mirror seems to realize that it's coming off as a little harsh, because it just shows what it sees and takes nothing else in account. So it explains that it's not cruel, just truthful. If the mirror were to lie to make what it reflected look worse than it already does, it would be considered cruel. Instead, it just shows what it sees, good or bad.