Francis William Bourdillon was born on 22 March 1852 at England and died on 13 January 1921 at England. He was a British poet and translator. Bourdillon is known for his poetry, and in particular, for the single short poem "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes".
“The Night has a thousand eyes” also has another name “Light”. The poem has 2 stanzas, 4 lines each. It follows the “abab” rhyme scheme.
The poem starts with the night. Poet says that night has thousand eyes. Here those eyes means stars. So first stanza says that night has thousand of stars but day only has one star (eye), The Sun. But those thousand of stars can not take place of Sun. Last two lines of first stanza says that when sun sets, the light of whole world dies. The world went in to the darkness. Here poet emphasize on the importance of sun in the world.
In second stanza mind takes the place of night. Now poet talks about humans. Here mind has thousand of eyes. As mind deals with everything related to body and it has thousand of thoughts, so those thoughts are here eyes of mind. But heart only has one emption, which is love. In last two lines poet says that liveliness of whole life dies with love. In this stanza poet emphasize on the importance of love in human life.
Poet here has used personification. He called stars, eyes of the night. So here poet has given human characteristics to the non living things, which is called personification.
At the end, we can ay that poet in this poem has talked about two important thing, without one can not live. The Earth will die if sun disappear and same way the human will die from inside if there is no love in life. Poet also talks about, how other things can not replace the one. Stars are in great quantity, but they can not replace sun. Same way mind functions whole body but it can not take place of heart and love.
Thank you.
“The Night has a thousand eyes” also has another name “Light”. The poem has 2 stanzas, 4 lines each. It follows the “abab” rhyme scheme.
The poem starts with the night. Poet says that night has thousand eyes. Here those eyes means stars. So first stanza says that night has thousand of stars but day only has one star (eye), The Sun. But those thousand of stars can not take place of Sun. Last two lines of first stanza says that when sun sets, the light of whole world dies. The world went in to the darkness. Here poet emphasize on the importance of sun in the world.
In second stanza mind takes the place of night. Now poet talks about humans. Here mind has thousand of eyes. As mind deals with everything related to body and it has thousand of thoughts, so those thoughts are here eyes of mind. But heart only has one emption, which is love. In last two lines poet says that liveliness of whole life dies with love. In this stanza poet emphasize on the importance of love in human life.
Poet here has used personification. He called stars, eyes of the night. So here poet has given human characteristics to the non living things, which is called personification.
At the end, we can ay that poet in this poem has talked about two important thing, without one can not live. The Earth will die if sun disappear and same way the human will die from inside if there is no love in life. Poet also talks about, how other things can not replace the one. Stars are in great quantity, but they can not replace sun. Same way mind functions whole body but it can not take place of heart and love.
Thank you.
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