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UPON THE LAST DAY OF HIS FORTY-NINTH YEAR by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: SCRITCH, SCRATCH, SAID THE FROZEN SPRING SNOW
Last Line: AND FEELS THE GUT PULL OF STEEP MATURITY
Subject(s): MIDDLE AGE;

Poem Sources:

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



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