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    Collins's ''The Symbol'' reads more like a prose fable than a poem.And why do the mirrors live unhappily ever after, besides that Collins tells us they do.One thing is for sure, a limerical treatment can't help but improve this stinker. There is a lot of potential symbolism here. Too bad Collins fumbled. Mirror breakage is said to cause seven ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 7, 2009