Question

What is the wall that the poet is referring to in the poem “As I Grow Older”? What were the things that stood as a wall during his time?

Answer 1

Answer:

The mirror explains, in the final lines, "In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman / Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish." In other words, "she" -- the woman -- has watched her youth slowly disappear over the years of looking into this same mirror, and the mirror interprets that as a ...