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The Mirror What do we see when we look in the mirror? Does it tell how things revolve around looks and how others see us? I think that a search in a mirror is in the end a search for oneself. We identify ourselves by our physical presence. Many things reflect our true self and distort our image, as we want to see it? This poem seems to be a progression of age ending in death. The “Mirror” seems to me a very powerful poem in that it takes the image of the mirror and leads us to feel that while we may come to know ourselves, it is merely a reflection. It is possible for us to ever really see our own face, and so by association, even our own soul. When we look in the mirror we are searching for proof of ourselves as physical entities, we look not only to make sure we are acceptable but also to assure ourselves that we are there at all. It tells how things really do revolve around looks because a great deal of the population in this