The poem creates many of the same responses the painting creates but in its own way. Both feature mirror concepts, the painting in the water and the poem in certain lines that make you reflect on your own life. Both draw your eyes centrally, the painting in the placement of the girls and the poem in the composition of the stanzas. They each allow you to put yourself inside them as a character or focus of their meaning, the painting through the blurred anonymous face of the turned girl and the poem through its lines that make you reflect on your own life. The language in the poem transitions from evening to night: “fair sisters of the evening star”, “night begins to fall”, “a day will dawn”, and the painting does that as well, being set in the evening but the twisting darker colors in the background of road indicating the coming of night.
