Mirror

2. In what ways is the mirror like and unlike a person (stanza 1)? In what ways is it like a lake (stanza 2)?

The mirror is unlike a human because it describes itself as silver and exact. Also it says that it has no feelings which a person has and an example of this is when it says, " I am not cruel, only truthful." In the second stanza the mirror says it is a lake and it demonstrates this by saying just little things like, "a women bends over me..." Also it says things like, "reflect it faithfully," and,
"in me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish." By saying these thing such as putting words in it such as drowned, fish, and reflect, tell qualities of a lake.