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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIKE A BULRUSH, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Or the spike
Last Line: Realize that he was amphibious.
Subject(s): Bulrush
First Line: Or the spike
Last Line: Realize that he was amphibious.
Subject(s): Bulrush
Or the spike
of a channel marker or the
moon, he superintended the demolition of his image in
the water by the wind; he did not strike
them at the
time as being different from
any other inhabitant of the water; it was as if he
were a seal in the combined livery
of bird plus
snake; it was as if he knew that
the penguins were not fish and as if in their bat blindness, they did not
realize that he was amphibious.
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