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Read the Lines Given Above and Answer the Question that Follow. Explain the Line’ Lustrous Tokens of Radiant Lives’. - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.

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

Explain the line’ lustrous tokens of radiant lives’.

टीपा लिहा

उत्तर

The bangle sellers invite people to buy their bangles by praising the qualities of the bangles. They say they are the shining gifts that promise happy lives in the future to the wearer of the bangles. He thinks these bangles are the tokens of happy lives and happy marriages.

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पाठ 1.03: The Bangle Sellers - Stanza 1

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