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HOMECOMING by KARL SHAPIRO

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOST IN THE VASTNESS OF THE VOID PACIFIC
Last Line: And liberate in that high burst of love / the imprisoned souls of soldiers and of me
Subject(s): WORLD WAR II; SECOND WORLD WAR;

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