Authority figures then possess a special power to either encourage individuation or create in a person the kinds of psychic phenomenon described so in the essays we have read. When I was fourteen, I began high school in a district my family had moved to over the summer.
I can’t answer that one since it’s supposed to be personal but basically the question in easier words is what encourages do people, friends, people u admire influence how u act
Example: I admire a rude person so maybe it influences me to be rude, I admire my best friend for always making her homework in time so I’m starting to make it in time.
The second metaphor is used in the first line as “out of the night that covers me.” Here night represents dark times and hardships of the poet. The third metaphor is in the third stanza “looms but the horror of the shade.” Here shade refers to unseen future or upcoming challenges.