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What are things are compared in the poem?

Here the light and the houses were compared to adults and the thrush is compared to a child. When adults are reconciling the child smiles though he doesn’t know what is happening, in the same way thrush is also feeling happy to see the light bathing the houses though it doesn’t know what it is.


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