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The figurative language used is Personification. This is Personification because darkness was given human qualities. The word 'darkness' symbolizes depression or emotional instability. 'Slumber summons me to play' means that sleep is the only option to escape from reality and forgetting about responsibilities. The reader feels the emotion from this because it makes the reader imagine what it's like.
Look left and right
Listen in case of anything
See whether another car is coming behind to overtake it
Are they crossing the road using a pedestrian crossing
I think that's what would happen