What does the metaphor " the thunder was a lion" means?

Why do u think the boys care so much about being called by their nick names from the movie holes

Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: how is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue? the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences. the narrator is able to see into two character's heads. the narrator is addressing the audience directly. the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic

By comparing part i and part ii of "polar opposites" what can you tell that the poet means by polar opposites poet