Erica Prince English IV DC Mrs. Summers April 5, 2004 Different Natures of Death Portrayed In Poetry <Tab/>"Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other," Mohandas Gandhi. Death is something that happens to any living thing, and it is something that everyone has to deal …showed first 75 words of 1037 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1037 total…it, the mirror, is an old and ugly woman, one that is portrayed as a dead, bellied-up fish. The death founding this poem shows the death of something that was once beautiful, and something ugly was reborn in its place. Though the reader can not see if she is really ugly, the sadness of the woman in the mirror and the mirror's point of view as well show us that they see her as ugly.