Sophie's Response to "The Magic Mirror"

In Edward Hirsch's "The Magic Mirror," he uses Jackson Pollock's painting to describe a troubled childhood and being released from the memories of it. The painting has a kind of tribal look to it, which Hirsch relates to the language he uses in the poem. For example, when explaining the transition he was making between remembering his childhood and being released from it he says, "suddenly I was summoning all the wounded animals inside me, totems of childhood...." Also, he uses the image of the mirror as a metaphor for the connection he makes with his past - "I was walking through the skin of the mirror into the unexpected country of childhood." Relating the mood or feel -the colors, the actual images, the way they're presented in the piece of art to the language, images, and metaphors or ideas used in the poem will be key in this assignment.