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MIDSUMMER: 38 by DEREK WALCOTT

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE CAMPS HELD THEIR DISTANCE OF BROWN CHESTNUTS AND GREY SMOKE
Last Line: SINCE THIS CENTURY'S PASTORALS WERE ALREADY WRITTEN %AT AUSCHWITZ, BUCHENWALD, AT DACHAU, AT SACHSEN
Subject(s): HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945); JEWS;

Poem Sources:

BLOOD TO REMEMBER; AMERICAN POETS ON THE HOLOCAUST.
  FISHMAN, CHARLES (ED.)
  (1991)