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BEGOTTEN OF THE SPLEEN by CHARLES SIMIC

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE VIRGIN MOTHER WALKED BAREFOOT
Last Line: EVEN WHEN THE LIGHTS CAME ON-- %AND THE LIGHTS CAME ON: %THEFLOODLIGHTS IN THE GUARD TOWERS
Subject(s): WORLD WAR II;

Poem Sources:

LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 2ND ED.
  FRIEBERT, STUART, & YOUNG, DAVID (EDS.)
  (1989)
 
AGAINST FORGETTING; TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY OF WITNESS.
  FORCHE, CAROLYN (ED.)
  (1993)
 
SELECTED POEMS 1963-1983.
  SIMIC, CHARLES
  (1990)
 



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