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LES SYLPHIDES by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: LIFE IN A DAY: HE TOOK HIS GIRL TO THE BALLET
Last Line: THE RIVER HAD FLOWED AWAY %AND WHERE WERE THE WHITE FLOWERS
Subject(s): EROTIC LOVE; MARRIAGE;

Poem Sources:

LONG EMBRACE; TWENTIETH CENTURY IRISH LOVE POEMS.
  ORMSBY, FRANK (ED.)
  (1989)
 
THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY, SUPPLEMENT II: TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH AND AMERICAN VERSE, 1930-1950.
  (1984)
 
THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY ON CD. 2ND EDITION.
  (1996)
 



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