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Question
What are these bangles for? Why has the poet repeated the word happy in the last line here?
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Solution
The bangles are for maidens and wives. The poet has repeated the word happy as an oblique reference to the lives of these people who live a poverty stricken life and cannot be as happy as they appear to be. The bangles are happy tokens for happy lives
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