1. What do you notice about the lighting of this photograph?
What do the details about lighting tell us?

2. What can a viewer infer from the contrast
between the light and shadow areas of the
photograph?

3. What is important about these details?
Why did the photograph include them?

hello,

your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

- i.a -

answer: d

explanation: