1. Alice was carrying a large clothes basket from the bedroom down the stairs to the laundry room She struggled under the weight of the basket. She wished her younger brothers would help her,

Instead, they were playing. She had heard them throwing a baseball in the house earlier. She had told

them to go outside. They had gone to the backyard, but they had left the baseball on the stairs,

Whats the question?

Explanation:

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 -

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment