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I SURMOUNT by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: PAIN AT FRAUD, BELIEVING
Last Line: GIVING AS ITS REASON THAT MYSELF EXISTS.
Subject(s): LIFE; SELF-RELIANCE;
pain at fraud, believing
in my own principle of joy,
that if I would live
as I imagine, each difficulty
must be turned to my employ;
that when I discover its use,
nothing is left
by which I may refuse my joy,
for in my possession is the meaning,
and I am of what each meaning consists,
giving as its reason that myself exists.



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