In just a few words, I changed my perspective: I, the heroine, the emperor as the author.
The connection between poems is as coherent as camera shooting.
The echo of head and tail makes poetry suddenly generate. The time change from plum blossom to Nanshan seems to be a lifetime.
The title "In the Mirror" contains a gesture of refusal. Mirrors have dual functions. On the one hand, it has adsorption and replication functions. Even a small mirror can contain the whole world. This is a frightening mirror that Borges once wrote.
But on the other hand, the mirror also means rejection. Its four boundaries are rejection and denial of the outside world, and it is a mirror dedicated to self and inner. For those who look at themselves in the mirror, the adsorption function of the mirror rarely plays a role. He keeps the whole world firmly out with his back, and what he sees in the mirror is always himself.
And the four borders of the mirror just help him consolidate his image. Therefore, the mirror also provides us with an excellent opportunity to examine ourselves. Facing the mirror is actually facing yourself.
It is worth noting that the mirror is not a simple prop in the process of self-examination. It has a dialogue with us. Facing different mirrors, we get different self-images. In other words, it is the mirror that tells us who we are.
Conversely, every time we look at ourselves, we need a special mirror. Pound wrote a poem "Self-pity in the Mirror". At the end of the poem, the narrator's ego splits, and what he sees in the mirror is an other.
This poem is one of his most beautiful and pure poems. It attracts our vision and perhaps our hearing. However, it changed the perceivable things, making it a stranger and a terrible person.
It completed the abnormal movements with its perfect rhythm and fantastic innocence. It destroys physical objects in order to upgrade them to absolute essence, which has nothing to do with the empirical world and is more thoroughly presented in the language. With the help of language, they entered a connection that was divorced from the real order.