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What do the following words personify or symbolize- night, darkness, pit, shade.

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The second metaphor is used in the first line as “out of the night that covers me.” Here night represents dark times and hardships of the poet. The third metaphor is in the third stanza “looms but the horror of the shade.” Here shade refers to unseen future or upcoming challenges.

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