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WHO NEVER WANTED, - MADDEST JOY by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Should disentrall thy soul
Subject(s): HUMAN BEHAVIOR;

Who never wanted - maddest Joy
Remains to him unknown -
The Banquet of Abstemiousness
Defaces that of Wine -

Within its reach, though yet ungrasped
Desire's perfect Goal -
No nearer - lest the Actual -
Should disentrall thy soul



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