First, the mirror (personified) imagines itself to be a lake, witnessing everything that hovers over in nature. Just as when the mirror is in the empty room reflecting what is seen here, the lake reflects what can be seen in the sky, and anything that is within the distance of the reflection (scientifically). This reflection is just as true and genuine as that reflection that the mirror provides in the empty. Additionally, the mirror uses the woman (at the lake) to describe itself as well. As the lake provides genuine reflections, the lake describes what can be 'seen' when the woman looks in to the lake: (first) a young girl who faces challenge but brings a positive outlook to life and a 'feeling' of hope to the lake, and (second) a old woman struggles to maintain hope in this lifetime, metaphorically using candles and the moon to back the assumption that brighter situations could never possibly
First, the mirror (personified) imagines itself to be a lake, witnessing everything that hovers over in nature. Just as when the mirror is in the empty room reflecting what is seen here, the lake reflects what can be seen in the sky, and anything that is within the distance of the reflection (scientifically). This reflection is just as true and genuine as that reflection that the mirror provides in the empty. Additionally, the mirror uses the woman (at the lake) to describe itself as well. As the lake provides genuine reflections, the lake describes what can be 'seen' when the woman looks in to the lake: (first) a young girl who faces challenge but brings a positive outlook to life and a 'feeling' of hope to the lake, and (second) a old woman struggles to maintain hope in this lifetime, metaphorically using candles and the moon to back the assumption that brighter situations could never possibly