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PENSIVE AND FALTERING by WALT WHITMAN

Poet Analysis

Last Line: And I the apparition, I the spectre
Subject(s): DEATH;

PENSIVE and faltering,
The words the Dead I write,
For living are the Dead,
(Haply the only living, only real,
And I the apparition, I the spectre.)



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