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? The drawn blinds hide the night from the cat. The cat paws at the blinds to let in the light. The sun pushes aside the night as if it were blinds. The sun rises at the edge of the dark sky.
In the lines 5 and 6 of the poem "The Golden Cat" by Oliver Herford, the meaning of the figurative language is that the cat paws at the blinds to let in the light of the sun.
Through the lines 5 and 6 we can understand that the cat stretches its paws towards the blinds in the morning. It basically means that the cat is ready to let the sunlight in though the blinds are closely drawn. It is something that the cats loves to do every morning.
The description indicates the man is tough and rich. Tough because he has a square jaw and a scar above his eye. Rich because he has a diamond set into his scarfpin.
The other characteristics cannot be inferred based on this description.
He doesn’t know the person being talked about in a conversation he overheard, he would dismiss it just as quickly as he heard it and would likely not remember it the next day.
