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PURGATION (SECOND VERSION) by JAMES DICKEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEFORE AND AFTER THE EYE, GRASSES GO OVER THE LONG FIELDS
Last Line: BOTH SIGHING LIKE GRASS AND FIRE

Poem Sources:

THE WHOLE MOTION: COLLECTED POEMS, 1945 - 1992.
  DICKEY, JAMES
  (1992)
 



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