for the sleepwalkers
...y both do the same things. Hirsch uses one simile to compare the sleepwalkers returning home safely to blind men whom knows it is morning by just feeling shadows. While one is asleep, our hearts leave our bodies to find something else. They steadily wander and search until they come back to us. It is like we are in another realm of life. This is an apostrophe Hirsch uses to represent our absent hearts. Description is used throughout the poem to show the audience what really goes on when one is sleepwalking. Hirsch describes how they have faith to sleepwalk and how they wake up as they were after walking in darkness. He also describes how our hearts leave our bodies when we are asleep and how they come back to us after flying throughout the night. The audience, everyone out there, gets to understand what Hirsch thinks about sleepwalkers when they read the poem. They get to compare what they think to what he thinks about them. At the end of the poem Hirsch leaves us with a message, the theme. He tells us how we need to be more like sleepwalkers and have the faith that they have, so we can be able to be ...