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"At Night" begins with personification of the Universe at night as "sober-faced." Simultaneously and oxymoronically, the Universe is also "of intoxication," or perhaps intoxicating. The Universe is trapped by the night in "a doorless cage." The world is compared to a pond in which frogs, perhaps a metaphor for people, are encouraged by the poet to "cry out for the light." The poem ends on a note of fear of the night, whose "curtains rattle ghostily along."
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