The "Mirror" is a poem that discusses the quality of the mirror and difficulty of seeing deeper into one's self. The speaker in the poem is the mirror, which describes itself in human-way form throughout the poem. The form of the poem is like a riddle. The mirror has a mind of its own, it tells us what it sees day by day.
             The mirror starts out saying, "I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions."(1) This sentence shows that the author is describing the mirror as the speaker. The mirror belongs to a woman who wakes up everyday and looks at it hoping to see a young, beautiful reflection of herself. The mirror is pure in its reflection of the woman, "Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike I am not cruel, only truthful."(3-4) Love or dislike cannot change the reflection the mirror will give and truth as it is reflected back to the woman can often be cruel or harsh but it is only truthful. The woman has to understand that it is not the mirrors fault but more its job.
             The mirror expresses its loneliness when he states, "Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall."(6) "I have looked at it so long, I think it is part of my heart."(7) "Faces and darkness separate us over and over."(9) The image of the wall creates the feeling of boredom and sadness. The darkness separates the mirror from its constant vision of the wall, which has become part of its "heart".
             In the lines, "Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me. Searching my reaches for what she really is."(10-11) This presents the woman looking for her true identity inside her reflection. The woman does not like what she sees so, "she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon"(12), hoping for a better truth. Since the candles and the moon are not so bright, they don't show her the whole vision of her face. "I am so impor
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