Explain the meaning of this extract from the poem mirrors!
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises towards her day after day like a terrible fish.
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Given below is the answer to your question.
The mirror appears to be like a lake because it reflects anything that looks into it. A lake shows the face of the person looking at it or reflects every other thing. In the same manner, anything that looks into a mirror is reflected back. This aspect of reflecting of the mirror is mentioned in this stanza. The poet talks about the woman who looks in the mirror and is angry after seeing her true self. Therefore, she reacts in anger and agitation (violence) of hands.
In the next stanza the poet talks about the woman, to whom the mirror is important. Every morning, she appears in front of the mirror. The first thing that the mirror sees in the morning is her face. The mirror remembers that the woman used to look into the mirror from the time she was a young girl. Now the woman has grown old and she is ageing and therefore, looks like a terrible fish.
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Given below is the answer to your question.
The mirror appears to be like a lake because it reflects anything that looks into it. A lake shows the face of the person looking at it or reflects every other thing. In the same manner, anything that looks into a mirror is reflected back. This aspect of reflecting of the mirror is mentioned in this stanza. The poet talks about the woman who looks in the mirror and is angry after seeing her true self. Therefore, she reacts in anger and agitation (violence) of hands.
In the next stanza the poet talks about the woman, to whom the mirror is important. Every morning, she appears in front of the mirror. The first thing that the mirror sees in the morning is her face. The mirror remembers that the woman used to look into the mirror from the time she was a young girl. Now the woman has grown old and she is ageing and therefore, looks like a terrible fish.
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