"Mirror"

Question 1

Which word characterizes the speaker in the first stanza?

Answer 1

Objective

Question 2

The use of swallow in line 2 is an example of personification. What effect does it have on the poem?

Answer 2

It conveys the way the mirror completely consumes whatever it sees.

Question 3

The metaphor eye of a little god in line 5 gives the impression that the mirror ___?

Answer 3

Sees all

Question 4

When the woman turns to those liars, the candles or the moon on line 12 the speaker thinks she is __?

Answer 4

Avoiding discovering her true self

Question 5

Based on line 14 the speaker__?

Answer 5

Enjoys the emotion it has caused the woman

Question 6

The two short sentences in line 15 of the poem contribute to a tone of __?

Answer 6

Pride

Question 7

The poet uses the word drowned in line 17 to suggest__?

Answer 7

The unavoidable passing of time

Question 8

The poem shifts in the second stanza by ___?

Answer 8

Focusing on the woman’s reactions

Question 9

How does the speaker feel about the pink wall in lines 6-9?

Answer 9

Bored

Question 10

What two sentences best expresses possible interpretations of the smile in the last two lines of the poem?

Answer 10

• The woman loses a little bit more of her youth when she looks in the lake.
• The woman sees herself more negatively every time she looks in the lake.

Question 11

12. Part A:
    What theme can the reader infer from lines 15-18?

Part B:
Support with evidence!

Answer 11

Part A:
Beauty fading is inevitable

Part B:
In me an old woman rises toward her day after day (Was C)