John Ashbery is a distinguished member of the New York School of Poets. His avant-garde and highly innovative poetry make him one of America's unique poetic voices. SelfPortrait in a Convex Mirror is one of John Ashbery's most significant volumes of poetry. The volume's titular poem is considered one of the greatest poems of contemporary American poetry. The poem is a meditation on a self-portrait in a convex mirror by the renaissance painter Parmigianino. The poet speaks through the painter of a distant time and establishes an empathetic relationship with him, transcending spatial and temporal barriers and attempting to explore the interconnectedness between art and the self. The study of the poet's self remains hidden in complex layers of introspective meditations on art and art criticism. The imagery of mirrors is extensively employed throughout the poem. In this poem, Ashbery uses the mode of emphasis or the poetic description of a pictorial or a sculptural piece of art. He also posits that all art is self-reflexive to some extent. This poem narrates a poet's relation to an artwork of the past and how he studies it in the present. This paper aims to analyze the verse from the thematic perspective of self-representation.