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MY LIFE by HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Poet Analysis

First Line: MY LIFE HAS BEEN THE POEM I COULD HAVE WRIT
Last Line: BUT I COULD NOT BOTH LIVE AND UTTER IT.
Subject(s): LIFE; TRANSCENDENTALISM;

My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.



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