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SWARM by SYLVIA PLATH

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First Line: SOMEBODY IS SHOOTING AT SOMETHING IN OUR TOWN
Last Line: NAPOLEON IS PLEASED, HE IS PLEASED WITH EVERYTHING. %O EUROPE! O TON OF HONEY!
Subject(s): BEES; INSECTS; NAPOLEON I (1769-1821);

Poem Sources:

THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE BY WOMEN. SECOND EDITION.
  GILBERT, SANDRA M. & GUBAR, SUSAN (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. TED HUGHES (ED.)
  PLATH, SYLVIA
  (1981)
 
POEMS. SELECTED BY DIANE WOOD MIDDLEBROOK.
  PLATH, SYLVIA
  (1998)
 



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