Linda Pastan, USA (1932) Word-Meaning: a Rembrandit painting: एक किसिमको पेंटिंग burdens of responsibility: जिम्बेवारिको भार canvas: पेन्टिंग गर्ने स्क्रीन eschew: कुनै चिज त्याग्ने वा त्यसबाट टाढा रहने ethics: मानिसको व्यवहारलाई प्रवाहित पार्ने वा नियन्त्रण गर्ने नैतिक सिद्धान्तहरु/ नैतिक सिद्धान्तसंग सम्बन्धित दर्शनशास्त्रको एक अंक every fall - every autumn: प्रत्येक हिउद, जाडो मौसम half - heartedly: प्रयास वा उत्तेजना/चाखहिन असजिलो महसुस हुने radiant elements: चम्किला/ज्वज्वलमान तत्वहरु POEM In ethics class so many years ago our teacher asked this question every fall: If there were a fire in a museum, which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who hadn’t many years left anyhow? Restless on hard chairs caring little for pictures or old age we’d opt one year for life, the next for art and always half-heartedly. Sometimes the woman borrowed my grandmother’s face leaving her usual kitchen to wander some drafty, half-imagined museum. One year,
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