“Be Lost in the Call”
“Be Lost in the Call” transmits its fundamental message on the quintessence of empathy and bigheartedness through the emblematic mirror: “so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;/its darkened back, the world;/The back would please you if you've never seen the face./Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?/Yet clean away the mud and straw,/and a mirror might be revealed.” The representational mirror champions the Shininess versus Darkness binary. The shiny periphery makes it practicable to observe viewers’ reflections.
Comparatively, the dark plane does not yield any reflections. Therefore, users mostly view the shiny side and overlook the dark side. The shininess typifies kindness and consideration which should be sought persistently even when the mirror is marred by mud and straw. The dark surface denotes the callousness and wickedness which prevail when one is indifferent.
“Reality and Appearance”
“Reality and Appearance” applies the Light versus Dark binary: “'Tis light makes colour visible: at night/Red, greene, and russet vanish from thy sight./So to thee light by darkness is made known.” Light exemplifies authentic ‘reality and appearance’ because it promotes the differentiation innumerable colours. The colors cannot be noticed unmistakably in darkness. Therefore, darkness obscures realism, whereas light reveals it. Observations of ‘reality and appearance’ are dissimilar depending on the degree of light and darkness.
