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SPLEEN by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THE LOW, HEAVY SKY WEIGHS LIKE A LID ON THE SIGHING
Last Line: ANGUISH, ATROCIOUS AND DESPOTIC, PLANTS %ITS BLACK FLAG ON MY SKULL BOWED LOW

Poem Sources:

FOUR FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETS; BAUDELAIRE, RIMBAUD, VERLAINE, MALLARME.
  PESCHEL, ENID RHODES (TR.)
  (1981)
 
BITTERROOT, V28#95W/89.
  (1989)
 



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