Please help!
judging nature to be evil is an untenable position for Thoreau. Would he make such a judgement or criticize it?

a. the scene is structured as a dialogue between two characters in their own informal language.

hello,

your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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