ANALYSIS - I Look into my Glass

Considering the title, the intelligent reader can make some conjectures about what the poem will be about. Glass, in English, has many meanings, so, going on reading the text, the reader understands that "glass" is a mirror. The general meaning of the title is "I examine my mirror" so the reader is curious to find out what the speaker sees into the glass.

Taking the layout, the poem is arranged into three stanzas, each made of four lines. The poem displays that every third verse of each stanza is longer than the others and the eighth line is terribly shorter.

Reading, the poem appears to be about an elder person who realises his oldness. While reading, the attention is drawn on the fifth verse, where there is a deviation of the general words order using I before the comma, then, this line, since it is grammatically incorrect, makes the reader slow, as the eighth line does, and strikes in his or her mind the word I. The general rhythm of the text is slow, though in the second and third line it is faster because of an enjambment.

The poem tells about the realisation by the speaker of how aged he has become, and, when he realises his oldness, he seems to be eager to die to rest in peace, that is exploited with the waiting of his dead with equanimity, then the reader understands he is relaxed and not worried. In general, the poem is a reflection about time and length of life, when you are going to die you think about all you have done and been.