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UPON THE GALLOWS HUNG A WRETCH by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Oh, what a livid boon!
Subject(s): CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; MOTHERS & SONS;
Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law entitled him.
As nature's curtain fell
The one who bore him tottered in , -
For this was woman's son.
"'Twere all I had," she stricken gasped -
Oh, what a livid boon!


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