Question

3. How did he light the lamp in the poem The Lamp Lighter ​

Answer 1

The lamplighter is reimagined by Stevenson into a wondrous and almost magical figure as seen through the speaker's description. While the job of lighting lamps would be seen as banal by people at the time, it is instead seen as extraordinary by the speaker. The child sees the presence of lights at nighttime to be special and wishes to follow the Lamplighter into the same profession.