i reall need help from all of the literature master here. pleas help me...

[vaiz]

here is the case. i'm in project now. i have to work with this poem "moments of vision by Thomas Hardy". we know that Thomas Hardy is English poet, right?
i have some difficulties with that poem. i can't interpret what the poem means at all. so i need all of your help masters here. i really apreciate it.
here the poem

Moments of Vision
That mirror
Which makes of men a transparency,
Who holds that mirror
And bids us such a breast-bare spectacle see
Of you and me?
That mirror
Whose magic penetrates like a dart,
Who lifts that mirror
And throws our mind back on us, and our heart,
until we start?
That mirror
Works well in these night hours of ache;
Why in that mirror
Are tincts we never see ourselves once take
When the world is awake?
That mirror
Can test each mortal when unaware;
Yea, that strange mirror
May catch his last thoughts, whole life foul or fair,
Glassing it — where?

the jobs:
what is the significance of the mirror?
how will you relate the work with attributes "outside" the poem?
explain per line or per stanza what the meaning is.
give the conclusion about the poem.
give the biographical approach.


I have to thank to you for your help. really thank you. God Bless You All. Amin.

[PeterL]

People here don't generally do school assignments for people who post. I would suggest that you translate the poem, into you native language and see what it means then.