Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow:
“A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then the turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.”
1. What is the woman bending over?
2. Why does the woman bend over?
3. Is she satisfied with what she observes? Give reasons for your answer.
4. Why have the candles and moon been called ‘liars’?
5. Why does she turn to these objects in spite of calling them ‘liars’?
1. The woman is bending over the lake (mirror).
2. The woman is bending over because she is searching for her real self, which only the mirror can show.
3. She is not satisfied with what she observes because she keeps turning to the moon and the candles.
4. The candles and the moon have been called liars because they do not give the woman a real image of her self.
5. In spite of calling them liars, she turns to them because at night, when everything is dark, only they provide light.