During the night the author is slowly falling asleep. He compares falling asleep while reading to an endless rope. Collins writs, “There is no more gentle way to go into the night/ than to follow an endless rope of sentences”(7-8). The author, is using a metaphor to elaborate on how he was slowly reading his book and falling asleep. Collins uses “to follow and endless rope of sentences” because it creates the feeling of following a rope of words from his book. A rope of sentences implies that the words will never end and are dragging him into sleep. Those words help bring a realistic feeling to the reader drifting off to
During the night the author is slowly falling asleep. He compares falling asleep while reading to an endless rope. Collins writs, “There is no more gentle way to go into the night/ than to follow an endless rope of sentences”(7-8). The author, is using a metaphor to elaborate on how he was slowly reading his book and falling asleep. Collins uses “to follow and endless rope of sentences” because it creates the feeling of following a rope of words from his book. A rope of sentences implies that the words will never end and are dragging him into sleep. Those words help bring a realistic feeling to the reader drifting off to