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This poem displays woman’s insecurity towards themselves and how mirrors show them. Magazines today show women who cannot exist… These women in the pictures and ads are airbrushed and photo-shopped to perfection. When women look at those pictures and then in the mirror it is not the same image and it is not what they want to see. This poem shows the emotions of a woman today and shows the pressure and pain it takes to be one. Sometimes when women look in the mirror they feel like they are going to die... this poem articulates that emotion extremely well with the last line "In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish." Fish do not rise, they only swim unless they have died... This poem tells the world how women feel.