Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins. or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. How does this metaphor reveal Collins’s message? The metaphor suggests that poetic themes are serious and dark. The metaphor suggests that readers should explore poems in depth. The metaphor insists that readers should move about while reading. The metaphor insists that one must know the poet to understand the poem.

Simon is writing a story about an astronaut whose spacecraft has been boarded by space pirates. the astronaut has her lucky penny in her hand behind her back as the space pirates break into the control room. she has just locked the controls so that the ship is accelerating in the direction of the control room’s ceiling. simon wants the astronaut to use the penny to hit a button on the control panel to turn off the lights and escape. the button is located a short distance behind and below the astronaut’s hands. how should simon use the theory of relativity to describe what the astronaut must do in order to hit the button?