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TWO SWIMMERS WRESTLED ON THE SPAR by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: And hands – beseeching – thrown!
Subject(s): SWIMMING; SHIPS & SHIPPING;

Two swimmers wrestled on the spar -

Until the morning sun -

When One - turned smiling to the land -

Oh God! the Other One!



The stray ships - passing -

Spied a face -

Upon the waters borne -

With eyes in death - still begging raised -

And hands - beseeching - thrown!



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