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SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE PYRAMIDS ROOTED IN A RUBBLE OF BEGGARS AND BORED CAMELS
Last Line: MAJESTY! WE HAVE LIFTED YOU UP ON THE BACKS OF SLAVES %WHOSELIVES YOU STILL HOLD AS THE CURVED EARTH
Subject(s): CHURCHES; GRAVES; MONUMENTS; PANTHEON, ROME; PARTHENON; PYRAMIDS;

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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