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Comment on the use of the image of the shadows for the idea that the poet wants to convey.

The poet has to clear ideologies in narration. One depicting the bond of love and understanding between two people. This ideology compares the relationship based on the length of the shadow. In the second ideology, the Poet draws a simile to love being intrinsic and extrinsic during the latter and initial stages of the relationship respectively.


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