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People"  234          MY    COUNTRY    AND    MY    PEOPLE  as a
painter would paint it on his canvas, and conceal a trick of
perspective by using some objects in the foreground ("the man's
face55 and "the horse's head") to set off the distant view.
Entirely apart from the poetic feeling that the man is so high
up in the mountains, one realizes that the scenery was looked at
by the poet as if it were a piece of painting on a flat surface.
The reader would then see, as he actually sees in paintings or
snapshots, that hilltops seem to rise from the man's face and
the clouds nestling somewhere in the distance form a line broken
by the horse's head. This clearly was not possible if the poet
was not on horseback and the clouds were not lying on a lower
level in the distance. In the end, the reader has to imagine
himself on horseback on a high mountain path and view the scene
from the same