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why does the speaker want to west wind to sleep on in tje poem to the evening star by william blake ?​

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When the flowers shut their eyes in timely sleep after sunset, the evening star blesses them with her “silvery dew”. Apart from that, the speaker requests the star to let her west wind sleep on the lake. As the west wind is a symbol of destruction, he requests the angel to calm the spirit of the wind. (this is the only answer I can think of, correct me if I'm wrong)

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