Question

Why is the poet comparing day light with skies at night in the poem leisure ?

Answer 1

Answer:

It is so compared because the sparkles of the sun-beams that reflect upon the ripples of the rivers look like stars in the sky. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. Enrich that smile her eyes began.

Explanation:

Answer 2

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The lines read as”streams full of stars like skies at night”,the poet is comparing the manifold reflections of the glittering sun ,in the running water of the flowing stream,and the sparkling of the water reminds the poet of the twinkling of the stars at night.. This is an appropriate simile.