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SPLEEN by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Poet Analysis

First Line: I HAVE MORE MEMORIES THAN WERE I A THOUSAND YEARS OLD
Last Line: ON THE MAP, AND WHOSE SULLEN %HUMOR SINGS ONLY TO THE RAYS OF THE SETTING SUN

Poem Sources:

FOUR FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETS; BAUDELAIRE, RIMBAUD, VERLAINE, MALLARME.
  PESCHEL, ENID RHODES (TR.)
  (1981)
 



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