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TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 1 by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: A TOUCHY OLD GENT FROM COHASSET
Last Line: IS IMPLICIT BUT NOT, I HOPE, TACIT
Subject(s): LEAR, EDWARD (1812-1888);

Poem Sources:

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



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