Question

Read the excerpt from "The Golden Cat." Great is the Golden Cat who treads The Blue Roof Garden o'er our heads, The never tired smiling One That Human People call the Sun. He stretches forth his paw at dawn And though the blinds are closely drawn His claws peep through like Rays of Light, To catch the fluttering Bird of Night. What is the meaning of the figurative language in lines 5 and 6?

Answer 1

Answer:

According to the excerpt from "The Golden Cat", a poem by Oliver Herford, the meaning of the figurative language in lines 5 and 6 simply means that

The sun does not appear all at once. It starts gradually from the edge of the dark horizon.

This is evident from Line 5 which states that He stretches forth his paw at the dawn.

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