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METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION by WALLACE STEVENS

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First Line: IF THERE IS A MAN WHITE AS MARBLE
Last Line: And the memorial mosses hang their green / upon it, as it flows ahead
Subject(s): METAPHOR; SIMILES;
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