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Question
Which poetic device is used in the line: ‘Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,’
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Solution
The poet has used a simile to compare the pure white light emanating from the angel to a white lily. The poet uses the simile “a lily in bloom” to convey flowering of the human spirit that occurs when men look beyond themselves.
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