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What is the meaning of shadow as used in line 15?

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Read "Eldorado" by Edgar Allan Poe

What is the meaning of shadow as used in line 15?

Traveler

Knight

Ghost

Cloud

Answer: Ghost

Step-by-step explanation:

Poe uses the word "shadow" several times throughout the poem, but it has different meanings each time: "In sunshine and in shadow," "his heart a shadow," "the Valley of the Shadow."

In the fifteenth line he refers to "a pilgrim shadow." In this case the shadow represents a ghost to whom the main character of the poem asks for help to find the legendary El Dorado, which he has been trying to find his whole life.

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