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EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL by KHALED MATTAWA

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOOK HERE, MARCUS AURELIUS, WE’VE COME TO SEE
Last Line: its tentacles sewing a rupture I had nursed for too long
Subject(s): COMING OF AGE; MIDDLE AGE; AGING; LIBYA; ANCESTORS & ANCESTRY; FAMILY LIFE; MYTHOLOGY; HERITAGE; HEREDITY; RELATIVES;
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