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etc. go entirely against the spirit of the poem. They, in no way, can prove rau to be a state (a hero in religion. )
Sometimes a figure of speech slightly introduced is at once cut short to maintain the effect of a te in a verse. Thus in the verse“ starta" etc. which means:
“Blessed is the lover who, while hiding his extraamours and laughing in his sleeves is actually beaten by his beloved who is all in tears; first she indignantly binds him tightly by the noose in the form of her creeper -like arms delicate and trembling; then she takes him to her bed-chamber in the evening and there in the presence of her dear friends refers to his misdemeanour in sweetly indistinct and faltering words thus: " no such rascality again.” The metaphor aresta#19737 (the noose of the creeper-like arms) is fortunately cut short. Otherwise (as faap says ) if it would have been developed fully, perhaps the beloved would have been identified with a female hunter, and the bed-chamber with a cage ! Thus the full metaphor would have strangled to death the present ITA in the verse. Bare=not developed, cut short. In the following verse, a figure developed fully has suppressed the Th, present in the verse.
The verse (10) is from Hra's Fagaragal. It means:
She ( the heroine ), the thief of my heart, has entered the house of my body by breaking open, with the stroke of her beautiful form, the door of my eyes that have the panels of eye-lids.
Here it would have been better if the poet would have stopped at the partial metaphor of quagm. But by fully expanding the metaphor, he has spoiled the effect of the present T.
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