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

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It seems that the woman in the poem is deeply distressed because when she sees herself ageing in the mirror, she turns away to find her answers in the candles and the moon. She has tears in her eyes and her agitated hands express her distress.

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

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

(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?

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(g) What makes the woman start crying?

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