The cricket sang,

 And set the sun,

And workmen finished, one by one,

Their seam the day upon.

The low grass loaded with the dew,

The twilight stood as strangers do

With hat in hand, polite and new,

 To stay as if, or go.

A vastness, as a neighbor, came,—

A wisdom without face or name,

A peace, as hemispheres at home,—

And so the night became.

 

In 1-2 sentences, explain how figurative language such as use of metaphor and simile can help a reader create meaning.

And write it like a 7 grader

Figurative language, like metaphors and similes, can help a reader create meaning by comparing two different things in a way that helps us understand or imagine something more clearly, like comparing the sunset to the cricket's song or the night to a peaceful neighbor.