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SAILS ON ALL-SAINTS DAY by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: ONE DOES NOT EXPECT TO SEE THEM, OUT THERE
Last Line: TO ITS OWN SLIM SHADOW, MAST-STRAIGHT AND BLUE
Subject(s): SAILORS AND SAILING;

Poem Sources:

SHENANDOAH, V38#2/88.
  (1988)
 
COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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