This poem is extended personification: anthropomorphism – The mirror is given the quality of seeing and thinking 1. I am silver and accurate. I have no preconceived notions of the images I see. 2. I absorb everything that comes my way. 3. I am objective, and the image is not distorted nor beautified by my likes and dislikes. 5. Metaphor: Mirror compared to the eye of God because both are ‘all seeing’. Like an omniscient God, I get a multi-directional view of whatever I get to see. 6-8. Most of the time I get to focus my attention on the opposite wall that is pink in color and has many discolored patches on its surface (passage of time). I have been looking at it for such a long time that now it has become a part of my very existence. Link to metaphor: Just like people meditate and reflect upon God. 8. My steady view is interrupted many times. 9. Darkness and individuals standing between me and wall block my view and we are separated from each other whenever such an interruption occurs. 10. Metaphor: Lake is reflective like a mirror. It ‘swallows’ the image like a lake drowning an object. 11. Delving deep down into my depths she seems to be searching for her beauty and youth. Link to God? Comment on search for meaning/purpose? She turns to the mirror for meaning, just like people turn to God. 12. The dim light of the moon and candles lie to her (not what she really looks like). Is she defining her meaning with worldly things or opinions) 13. She has come back, I reveal the reality 14. She cries when I reveal the truth. She is panicked by the truth, so she wrings her hands. 10. Despite her disappointment she returns to see her reflection. 17. Link to swallow and drown. She sees her face aging through me. 19. It creates anxiety within her day after day and she feels like a fish out of water because of it. This is a metaphor for her feeling uncomfortable with growing old. The mirror has always recorded and reflected all the changes in her. It is her companion and confidant. It shows her true self to her. She is used to looking at herself in the mirror. She has been fond of admiring her youth and beauty as reflected by the mirror. But now she does not like wrinkled and aged face. She regrets the loss of her youth.
