The Land of Conjurors

Woman’s Room, an oil painting of her dressing room by P. K. Page In P. K. Page’s painting, Woman’s Room , a viewer may find it hard to situate his or her eyes when concentrating on a certain image. Instead of merely portraying what the room is, the room in the painting is displayed by the three-way mirror. It arouses the question of where the painter stands inside or outside the room interrelated when she is painting, which characterizes the speaker’s dilemma of her location with the tapestry in Page’s poem “Arras.” In the poem “Arras,” for example, the peacock-image is a process created by  complicating the self of speaker from the personal self to the impersonal self. In this poem, the speaker claims that she is not only the “observer” who sees things surrounding her but also the “other” by whom is seen (Page, “Arras” 12). A reader may further notice  that  the tapestry in this poem  w ill not be treated as the subject matter but turn out to be  the part of the mystery of the speak