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TO A GIRAFFE by MARIANNE MOORE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF IT IS UNPERMISSIBLE, IN FACT FATAL
Last Line: Is flawed, transcendence, conditional, / 'the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual'
Subject(s): GIRAFFES;
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