Name and explain the figure of speech in the following lines :
"If you do not get lowered in your own eyes while you raise yourself in those of others."

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Solution

In the given line the poet employs antithesis, that is, the use of two opposite ideas 'get lowered' and 'raise' for poetic effect.

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