Feverish Gobbling Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Descriptions of the night as a time of restlessness and fever frame a vignette of a duck going about its duck-life and then going to sleep (?) . So I assume the restlessness and fever are in the human observer who cannot ignore them the way the duck can. It is his experience of always being in a double consciousness - both of the outer world and his inner world. The duck is oblivious to these things and can just waddle off and go to sleep. But we human beings are forever observing and thinking - restlessness and fever always characterizes us.