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Answer the following questions briefly (a) What is the poetic device used when the mirror says 'I swallow'? (b) How does the mirror usually pass its time? (c) What disturbs the mirror's contemplation of the opposite wall? (d) Why does the mirror appear to be a lake in the second stanza? What aspect of the mirror do you think is being referred to here? (e) What is the woman searching for in the depths of the lake? (f) How does the narrator convey the fact that the woman looking at her reflection in the lake is deeply distressed? (g) What makes the woman start crying? (h) What do you think the 'terrible fish' in the last line symbolizes? What is the poetic device used here?

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Answer
the following questions briefly



(a)
What
is the poetic device used when the mirror says 'I
swallow'
?



(b)
How
does the mirror usually pass its time?



(c)
What
disturbs the mirror's contemplation of the opposite wall?



(d)
Why
does the mirror appear to be a lake in the second stanza? What aspect
of the mirror do you think is being referred to here?



(e)
What
is the woman searching for in the depths of the lake?



(f)
How
does the narrator convey the fact that the woman looking at her
reflection in the lake is deeply distressed?



(g)
What
makes the woman start crying?



(h)
What
do you think the 'terrible
fish'
in
the last line symbolizes? What is the poetic device used here?



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