In the second stanza the mirror begins to feel sorry for the woman.
“I see her back and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agnation of the hands.”
This tells you how the mirror sees the woman’s ugly face everyday and how the mirror sees the woman upset with the way she looks. The mirror is also upset, as it does not mean to upset her, but it can only show the truth.
The mood of the poem is sad.
“In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises towards her day after day, like a terrible fish.”
This tells how sad she is especially when she goes to the mirror and sees how her beauty has died away.
The way the poem has been structured is the first stanza is about the mirror and the second stanza is about the woman.
The poet’s idea is trying to make us think about how people care so much about how they look.
“I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning her face replaces the darkness.”
This tells us that the woman is maybe upset with the way she looks and how the mirror is really important because she wishes that she could be young and pretty again.
Overall I think this poem was sad as it made me feel sorry for the woman. Also at first I found it hard to understand.
The second poem has a different subject to the first poem. The first poem is about a woman looking in the mirror and the second poem is about a wall watching three bullies bullying a boy. For example:
“The first day only the wall saw the bully trip the new boy”
This line tells us that on the new boys fist day only the wall saw what the bullies did to the new boy.
The second poem has a similar mood to the first poem. For example:
“Only the wall heard the name he called, a name that would stick like toffee.”
This suggested that the new boy probably is getting bullied an obviously is upset about it. In the fist poem the woman is upset by the way she looks.
In the second poem the poet uses a good technique of personification just like the first poem, except in the first poem the mirror was personified and in the second poem the wall is personified. For example:
“The fourth day only the wall missed the new boy through five bullies looked for him”
This line shows that the wall sees what happens to the boy everyday.
In the second poem, the poem has been structured so that the first and second line in each stanza says what day it is and what the wall sees whereas in the first poem it has been structured with two stanzas. For example:
“The second day the wall didn’t see”
This tells you what day it is and what the wall sees.
In the second poem the poets main idea is that the wall sees everything the bullies do but cannot tell anyone because the wall cannot speak.
“The wall felt three bullies lean against it, ready to ambush the new boy”
This tells us how the wall felt sorry for the boy and wished he could something.
Overall I found this poem interesting because it was upsetting by the way the wall saw what the bullies were doing but could not do anything to help.
