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SORROW by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHY DOES THE THIN GREY STRAND
Last Line: I WATCHED THEM FLOAT UP THE DARK CHIMNEY.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me?

Ah, you will understand;
When I carried my mother downstairs,
A few times only, at the beginning
Of her soft-foot malady,

I should find, for a reprimand
To my gaiety, a few long grey hairs
On the breast of my coat; and one by one
I watched them float up the dark chimney.



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