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Read the Lines Given Above and Answer the Question that Follow. What is Being Compared to the Stars and Why ? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in springhtly dance.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.

What is being compared to the stars and why ?

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उत्तर

The host of golden daffodils by the side of the lake under the tree are being compared to the stars. A milky way is a cluster of stars which shine brightly across a huge stretch of space . Similarly like the stars in the milky way the poet feels that the daffodils are not only uncountable but also they are dancing with full energy and joy in never ending line along the margin of the lake .

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  या प्रश्नात किंवा उत्तरात काही त्रुटी आहे का?
पाठ 1.06: Daffodils - Lines 7 - 12

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