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   “Border of sleep” symbolizes approaching death and “roads” and “tracks” are the symbols of life. Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the objects different in nature. The poet has used an extended metaphor of ‘sleep’ throughout the poem and compared it to ‘death’.

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   In ‘Lights Out’ by Edward Thomas was first published in 1917. It explores themes of sleep, death, and the unknown. Despite the poem’s dark subject matter, the speaker ’s confident and determined tone presents death in an acceptable and entrancing light. A reader should come away from this poem with a better understanding of death as ...

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   Jul 21, 2016 · In Lights Out, a family is terrorized by a fearsome metaphor—the willowy, whispering hag of clinical depression, coming and going with the flip of a light switch. It’s not such foul play ...

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   “Lights Out” As a Representative of Death: As this poem is ready the power of sleep, the poet also compares sleep with a deep, darkish and dense woodland, wherein sooner or later, absolutely everyone would possibly lose their way. He believes that it is an area in which human feelings which includes love, ambitions, and affection stop.

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   Other comparisons that are not exactly metaphors occur in stanza four, where the poet compares the desire for sleep to the desire for an interesting book or a beloved person, and in stanza three ...

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   “Lights Out” is a poem that explores the beauty and mystery of the night. The poem is divided into two stanzas, each containing four lines. The first stanza sets the scene, as Thomas describes the transition from light to dark: I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight,

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   Is 'Lights Out' a metaphor for sleep?

   • One of Thomas’s most popular poems, ‘Lights Out’ is one of several ‘forest poems’ Thomas wrote, though the forest described is really a metaphor for sleep, the desire to ‘lose my way / And myself’. But is the sleep that poem calls for actually what Hamlet called ‘that sleep of death’?

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   How does the poem Lights Out describe the power of sleep?

   • It also captures how everything becomes meaningless in the face of sleep. “Lights Out” As a Representative of Death: As this poem is ready the power of sleep, the poet also compares sleep with a deep, darkish and dense woodland, wherein sooner or later, absolutely everyone would possibly lose their way.

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   What does Lights Out mean in the poem 'Lights Out'?

   • “Lights Out” As a Representative of Death: As this poem is ready the power of sleep, the poet also compares sleep with a deep, darkish and dense woodland, wherein sooner or later, absolutely everyone would possibly lose their way. He believes that it is an area in which human feelings which includes love, ambitions, and affection stop.

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   What is a metaphor in Lights Out?

   • In Lights Out, a family is terrorized by a fearsome metaphor—the willowy, whispering hag of clinical depression, coming and going with the flip of a light switch. It’s not such foul play, making your fiend a symbol of manic episodes.

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   What does Lights Out say about death?

   • In the first stanza of ‘Lights Out ,’ the poem suggests that death can deceive and suddenly engulf travellers. In the second stanza, he adds that since the beginning of time, there have been innumerable paths that have suggested a way through death.

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   What is the setting of the poem Lights Out?

   • Like many of Thomas’s poems it has a simple setting: the speaker, sheltering from the rain alone in a hut, muses upon his loved ones miles away and on death and the ‘love of death’. And speaking of love of death, the next poem on this list also embraces this subject. ‘ Lights Out ‘. They cannot choose …

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   Feb 11, 2016 · Like many of Thomas’s poems it has a simple setting: the speaker, sheltering from the rain alone in a hut, muses upon his loved ones miles away and on death and the ‘love of death’. And speaking of love of death, the next poem on this list also embraces this subject. ‘ Lights Out ‘. I have come to the borders of sleep,