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GREAT SCARF OF BIRDS by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: RIPE APPLES WERE CAUGHT LIKE RED FISH IN THE NETS
Last Line: MELTING ALL THOUGHT, THE SOUTHWARD CLOUD WITHDREW INTO THE AIR
Subject(s): BIRDS;

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER.
  (1969)
 
COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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