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FORMALITIES by JOHN CIARDI

Poet Analysis

First Line: ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1945
Last Line: IF ONLY HE WERE A CIVILIAN
Subject(s): MACARTHUR, GENERAL DOUGLAS (1880-1964); WORLD WAR II;

Poem Sources:

DESDEMONA'S FIRE; POEMS.
  KOCHER, RUTH ELLEN
  (1999)
 



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