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Metaphors: “Their eyes as brilliant and as wide as the night”, “Their manes the leaping ire of the wind”. These metaphors convey the etherealness of the atmosphere at that point of time. The poet uses these metaphors to once again compare simple objects with mysterious, eerie elements, suggestive of a dark night ahead. He uses these metaphors as a medium to chill the reader, and make the reader believe that something sinister has been going on in the poem. 12. The major mood of this poem appears to be a dark and sinister one, with many ethereal, ghostly happenings occurring in the background. The poet uses a variety of techniques in conjunction to achieve this effect. For example, he uses Alliteration to draw attention to the term “Struggling Snakes” which he then compares to the simple furrows on a farm. Thus, the poet effectively manages to bring forth an eerie, dark theme to a simple, farmhouse setting. In this way, he sets the mood as being dark and sinister. 13. The author has a pensive, lonely tone. He feels sad about the loss of his childhood, and he feels devastated by the fact that none of the familiar feelings he used to have when seeing his old childhood home return to him now that he is grown
