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

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‘I swallow’ personifies the mirror. The mirror seems to say that the image on it is deep enough to swallow everything, passively. The objectivity of the mirror is significant.

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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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