The poems in this collection are very big in the world, involving many books and legends. It is not easy for people who have no literary background or do not understand western culture and literature to understand them.
Borges's poems have profound artistic conception. After reading it once, it will be as strange as the first time after a long time, and it will still arouse our thinking and exclamation.
I like a poem in The Mirror: I have been afraid since I was a child that the mirror will show me another face or a mask without personality, that it will cover up unbearable things, and that when the mirror is silent, it will escape the track of people's normal hours and accommodate new objects, shapes and colors in the vague space it imagined (I didn't tell anyone; Children are always timid. ) \ Now I am afraid that the mirror is the true face of my soul. \ Shadow and mistakes hurt him. \ God can see, so can man.
This poem seems to be analyzing itself. People are always vulnerable, timid and cautious, and poets are no exception.
Borges said in the postscript of this collection of poems, "Like some cities and some people, books make me linger and meet each other for a long time." So he read so many books, read so many books, and in his poems, the books, cultural images and characters he read are all at his fingertips.
Borges was born in a scholarly family, and his father had a large number of classic books. He was immersed in it. "Please allow me to repeat that my father's book is the most important thing in my life. In fact, I have never left them. "