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UPON LEARNING THAT A BIRD EXISTS CALLED THE TURNSTONE by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: A TURNSTONE TURNED ROVER
Last Line: WHILE YEARNING ABOVE HER %THE TERNS CRIED, 'RETURN!'
Subject(s): TURNSTONES;

Poem Sources:

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



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