The poem Mirror written by Sylvia Path was discussed and pondered during class. Mirror beautifully depicted the perspective and perception of a material's point of view rather than a person's point of view; as it personified itself as an individual and not an item through the statements of " unmisted by love and dislike", "I think it is a part of my heart", and comparing itself to a lake. The line "she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises" despite others perception of the line as a literal murder and referring to several lines before, I perceived it as a lake- a clear lake. A clear lake swallows up and absorbs reflections just like the same manner of a mirror. A lake as well as a mirror reflects what is shown. Therefore mirrors and lakes are one and the same, in a reflection perspective.
The way Path scripted the words in the perspective of a mirror,-a material having emotions and thoughts was mentally and imaginatively unique. Path's poem reminded me of a short film on YouTube called When Five Fell created by Wong Fu Productions. The Mirror seems to be a muse and inspiration for the short film as the personification of the poem is imitated and reflected in the short film but in different ways with different materials.
Therefore poetry of the past influences modern day writers and film makers. Everything old becomes new again, in somehow some altered way. Poetry is a history of continual manifestation for creative outflow and output.
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