Sexuality

Daniel poses a good question when he asks what the correlation is between the sexual imagery of the poem Before the Mirror and Picasso's painting. I think there is a huge relationship and a good reason for the sexuality used in both the painting and the poem. I have actually studied a little bit about this painting, and one of the main motives behind it was in order to show a girl looking in a mirror and seeing herself in a mature, more sexual way. There is most definitely a reason why the colors on her face are the ones they are, and a reason for the "erotic balls bouncing back and forth" that show this girl going from innocence to adulthood by maturing sexually. Of course, there is a lot more to it than just that, but the sexuality used in both the painting and the poem are significant and help us see the relationship between the two.