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SINGING SCHOOL: 6. EXPOSURE by SEAMUS HEANEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT IS DECEMBER IN WICKLOW
Last Line: The once-in-a-lifetime portent, / the comet's pulsing rose
Subject(s): IRELAND; WINTER; IRISH;

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