Summary of english literature 0 poetry mirror
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The poet has personified a mirror which tells its story. It is silver in colour, accurate and truthful. It is not cruel and is unbiased like the God’s eyes. It looks at the wall in front of it for most of the time and can make out the tiny pink spots on it. The mirror feels that the wall is a part of itself, but the faces and spells of darkness separate them.
In the third stanza the mirror compares itself to a lake and says that like a lake it also has depth. A woman looks into the mirror to ascertain her beauty. The moon and the candles are liars as their soft, dim light overlooks her flaws and falsely praises her beauty. The mirror is true and shows all the flaws to her. The woman is disappointed to see her image in the mirror. The mirror gets the woman’s tears and hatred in return for being true.
The mirror is important to a woman as she often looks at her image in it. Every morning as the sun rises, she looks at herself to ascertain her beauty. Her past image of a pretty young girl no longer exists but it is there in the depth of the mirror. Her future image of an old, ugly woman gets closer to her with each passing day. It is there in the mirror and one day, she will see it in the mirror.