Eyes-- The "thousand eyes" in the n

Eyes-- The "thousand eyes" in the night that the author addresses in this poem is a metaphor referring to the dim sparkle of the stars. The one eye of the day is the sun, as the author obviously states. There is a distinct contrast between the author's use of each "eye's" brightness correlating to their respective importance. The author then relates the thousand eyes of the night to the mind. The mind has a thousand eyes because it learns many things and expresses many different things. The author's inferred opinion is that the mind is not as important as the heart. The heart is then said to have only one eye, meaning that the heart really only has one purpose. Although it has only a single
purpose, like there is only a single sun, Bourdillon is telling the reader that they are both equally as important. That single purpose is to love.