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Sleep Imagery
We sure love sleep, but not the kind of sleep in this poem. That's because the "sleep" in this poem isn't your typical nightly snooze, but the permanent sleep of death. The speaker is tired of his life: he's been abandoned, and everything he once loved is gone. He wants to die, but he sees death as a peaceful sleep, an escape or release from what is a very unhappy life.
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