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Summary Of The Poem 'For The Sleepwalkers'
In the poem, "For the Sleepwalkers , the speaker is the author or the lyric and he is talking in first individual. The sonnet is for the sleepwalkers and their confidence. Before the end of the sonnet the author uncovers that he too is a sleepwalker. The tone is inspiring in light of the fact that the sleepwalkers show confidence amidst dimness. The state of mind proposes dull spots since it is evening time, they're eyes are shut, and the moonlight. The subject is caught on to be trust and confidence. All through the sonnet the creator is alluding to the sleepwalkers and the amount of confidence they embody, then the author writes that, "we have to learn to trust out hearts like that.  The example shows that the sonnet began casual, then

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