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EROS: 1 by HILDA DOOLITTLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHERE IS HE TAKING US
Last Line: NOW THAT HE HAS TURNED BACK?
Subject(s): BIBLE; LOVE;
Where is he taking us
now that he has turned back?
Where will this take us,
this fever,
spreading into light?

Nothing we have ever felt,
nothing we have ever dreamt,
or conjured in the night
or fashioned in loneliness,
can equal this.

Where is he taking us,
Eros,
now that he has turned back?



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