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LOSSES by RANDALL JARRELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT WAS NOT DYING: EVERYBODY DIED
Last Line: WE ARE SATISFIED, IF YOU ARE; BUT WHY DID I DIE?'
Subject(s): DEATH; WORLD WAR II;

Poem Sources:

SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY. VOLUME IX: WORLD WAR II & AFTERMATH.
  (1986)
 
MODERN VERSE IN ENGLISH 1900-1950.
  CECIL, DAVID, & TATE, ALLEN (EDS.)
  (1958)
 
LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 2ND ED.
  FRIEBERT, STUART, & YOUNG, DAVID (EDS.)
  (1989)
 
HARVARD BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
  VENDLER, HELEN (ED.)
  (1985)
 
THE BROADVIEW ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY.
  ROSENGARTEN, HERBERT & GOLDRICK-JONES, AMANDA (EDS.)
  (1993)
 
EARTH TOOK EARTH; A GOLDEN ECCO ANTHOLOGY.
  GRAHAM, JORIE (ED.)
  (1996)
 
WAR POEMS.
  HOLLANDER, JOHN (ED.)
  (1999)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 
THE WAR POETS.
  WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.)
  (1945)
 
THE COMPLETE POEMS.
  JARRELL, RANDALL
  (1969)
 



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