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What does it mean?
Ghani Khan describes manhood becoming madness or ecstasy with abstract imagery.
In plain terms
He uses metaphors to describe human transformation.
What can you take from it?
Poetry uses metaphors to explore human nature.

Where it applies

  • literary analysis
  • philosophy
  • art

Putting it to work

  • writing
  • reflection
  • interpreting art

Questions to consider

  • What does manhood mean to you?
  • How do metaphors help understanding?

Another view

Abstract poetry can be open to many interpretations.

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  2. Death, go somewhere, get lost! I'm not done as yet - Joy still flows from the amphora of colors into my cupped hands.

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  3. But death blinds you, unaware of man's fall - An autumn that steals the flower from the flower peddler. Death is testimony of god's love and mercy for man - A …

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