review of three poems
...s why the bed is cold as iron. Furthermore, her house is in a city but she considers that she does not live in this city, it is “someone’s city” not hers. She sees a plastic doll as her double so that a doll can not live in a city of living beings. At the end of the poem she sarcastically says “They think I am me!” this line shows that she pretends to be or acts as if she is a normal being, however she is not sure of her real identity. She is pessimistic because instead of searching out for her identity she resembles herself to a plastic doll. In the last line she asks herself “What is reality to this synthetic doll”; from this line we understand that she should search for her real identity and the meaning of life. She will immediately discover the meaning of life when she finds out the definition of self, instead of a non-living doll. Therefore resembling herself to a plastic doll is somehow an escape from her real identity. She depersonalizes herself by resembling herself to a non-living object. In the second poem called as “In an Artist’s Studio”, there is an artist who has pictures which were drawn on to canvasses. However, in all of these pictures there is a one single figure appears who sits or walks. In fact, this figure is artist’s beloved one’s double because the poet indicates that it is a “selfsame figure”. Also poet resembles canvasses as mirrors because they reflect the figure of a woman whom the artist has in his memories and in his mind and more than that they reflect her personality, her double. The artist tries to draw her features in detail and tries to define her identity. We understand that this woman is a person who is real and the artist has memories of her. However, he draws her picture “as she fills his dreams”; she is the woman as male-defined ideal or the artist defines her as an ideal. The artist’s picture is the double of a real woman who is special for the artist. The last poem called “The Witch” has also contains a dual image. In the fist two stanzas the speaker is a woman who tries to find her true-...