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Literary analysis:

In literature, "blush" emerges as a versatile device to express a range of emotional states from modesty and embarrassment to the tender glow of passion. Authors use it to reveal a character's inner conflict or secret sentiment—a hesitant admission of vulnerability, as when a protagonist dares not meet another’s gaze without a flush [1] or when a “maiden blush” hints at the onset of intimate revelations [2]. In other passages, the term becomes an aesthetic metaphor, comparing the natural bloom of a rosy dawn or a delicate flower’s hue to the warmth of human feeling [3][4]. Such usage enriches narrative tone, imbuing moments with both physical immediacy and symbolic depth.

For the future I shall be able to look her in the face without a blush.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2):— "Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face; Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek, For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
You will look lightly upon the three springs and regard the blush of the peach and the green of the willow as of no avail.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao
Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet’s rim, the warm waves blush like wine.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

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