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FAUST by JOHN ASHBERY

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF ONLY THE PHANTOM WOULD STOP REAPPEARING!
Last Line: ON THE BARE, SUNLIT STAGE THE HUNGERS COULD BEGIN
Subject(s): FAUST; OPERA; PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (MOVIE, 1925), THE;

Poem Sources:

VITAL SIGNS; CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESSES.
  WALLACE, RONALD (ED.)
  (1989)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. 3RD ED. ED, BY ALEXANDER ALLISON, BLAKE HERBERT, ET AL.
  ALLISON, ALEXANDER (ED.)
  (1983)
 
THE MODERN POETS; AN AMERICAN-BRITISH ANTHOLOGY. 2ND EDITION.
  BRINNIN, JOHN MALCOLM, & READ, BILL (EDS.)
  (1970)
 
SELECTED POEMS.
  ASHBERY, JOHN
  (1985)
 
THE MOORING OF STARTING OUT; THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF POETRY.
  ASHBERY, JOHN
  (1997)
 



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