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Question: Can anybody tell me what this poem means!?
The Night
Has a Thousand Eyes
by Frances William Bourdillion

The night has a thousand eyes
And the day but one
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun

The mind has a thousand eyes
and the heart but one
Yet the light of the whole life dies
when love is doneWww@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It;s about blindly loving someone!. She compares her one true love to the sun!. The stars at night relate to everyone and everything else (they are as bright as any other star but they are so far away the light they give is minuscule compared to the suns)!.!.!. all those stars to chose from but none is as bright as her one true love!.!.!. He is her day, he is the substance of her life!. the rest of her life is like distant stars in the black of night!.

The mind has a 1000 eyes is like saying it has many many thoughts but the heart it has only one thought, one focus, her heart is filled with love for another and there is no room for anything or anyone else!.

To lose love is to lose the sun!.!.!. and the only light left is the stars in the sky, which would be barely enough light to make her way through life!.

!.!.!. well I never read it before but that's how I see it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is almost a similie!. The day has one eye, one star (the sun) as compared to the night which is full of stars (eyes)!. This is in relation with the mind is focused on all these ideas and things (thousand eyes), but the heart is focused on one (eye) thing, passion, or person!. Then it goes to say, that once the (eye) the focus in the heart dies, everything dies as well!. Nothing else matters!.


hope i helped!. :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

its gorgggeeouusss =]]!. soo gorgeous i dont know what it means for sure lol!. the last two lines or stanzas or whatever you call them seems to say that when love is over life seems to be over also!. and the mind has a thousand eyes but the heart one means the mind has a thousand ways it can see something and the heart only sees things as one way!.!.!.!.real!.when you see with the mind sometimes you are blinded and confused by all the different avenues and ways of things!. and the first set of lines i really dont have any idea!. but still really beautiful!. im gonna keep reading it and try to find out what it means!.

edit: thatrandomgirl17 summed it up perfectlyyyyyyyWww@QuestionHome@Com

uhmm the first part can mean about the stars at night!? the stars are always in the sky they never leave day or night so no change there but the sun does not appear to be the same because at night you dont see it
and the second part can be about a broken heart!?
the mind is always changing and remains the same but the heart only changes when it becomes broken and it beomes different!?!?

sounds like things that dont change (stars and mind) are the result of the changiing things (sun and heart) the sun sets the stars appear your love is gone and in your mind thinks it!?

i hope u can make something out of this or inspire a new idea in your headWww@QuestionHome@Com