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प्रश्न
Do you think the narrator is heroic? Why?
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उत्तर
I don’t think the narrator/poet is heroic. A Hero is one who confronts any challenge and acts on it and fights to the end. The narrator is happy as a non-participant observer of heroic and rough games.
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