Creativity's role in the poem is to explain the nature of humans by comparing it with animal behavior. It tries to express alienation and being unique by using the bat's experience in the porch. The poem expresses man's human nature of breaking out of his zone and goes back to who he was in the end.
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If I keep spending more money than I am earning, my bank account will continue depleting.
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Depleting means reduction in something or act of reducing it .
A colon suggests that there will be a list that will follow it. Using the words 'such as', 'for example', and 'including' in a sentence also directs the attention of the reader to a list. It will be redundant to use a colon after the word 'including' in a sentence.