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BOUQUET OF ROSES IN SUNLIGHT by WALLACE STEVENS

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: SAY THAT IT IS A CRUDE EFFECT, BLACK REDS
Last Line: In seeing them. This is what makes them seem / so far beyond the rhetorician's touch
Subject(s): ROSES;

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