I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a yellow leaf is beautiful. Even better if the leaf is shaded in several hues. So we paint the yellows and reds in our paintings oftener. And we forget the ordinary green, the best in nature. Anuradha Bhattacharyya
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The poet speaks of a woman who is beautiful to him. He describes all the colors that can be used in a painting but he also describes the color of a leaf. He talks about how beautiful a green leaf looks with several shades of red and yellow. This is very similar to the story of the blind men and the elephant, where they all describe different parts of an elephant but come to the conclusion that it is a pillar.

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