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Friendship is defined by Philip Zimbardo as a relationship between people characterized by intimacy but not by passion and commitment. Zimbardo uses his reward theory to show us how people get attracted to each other, being it friendship or a relationship. The idea revealed in the reward theory is that attraction is a form of social learning based on social costs and benefits and hence we like those who give us maximum rewards at minimum …

…that good friends and lovers share intimate details about themselves. The principle of proximity is also revealed through the unraveling of the poem. In the first stanza, these friends are close and they even become closer because they are near to each other. Throughout the poem, knowledge is communicated and created through the use of metaphors. Through these metaphors, the qualities of friendship are revealed. Most of these qualities also relate to Zimbardo's reward theory.