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MY PORTION IS DEFEAT - TODAY by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: WHO TO HAVE HAD IT, WOULD HAVE BEEN %CONTENDER - TO DIE
Subject(s): WAR;

Poem Sources:

THE OXFORD BOOK OF WAR POETRY.
  STALLWORTHY, JON (ED.)
  (1984)
 
AMERICAN POETRY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. VOLUME 2. HERMAN MELVILLE TO TRUMBULL STICKNEY; AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY; FOLK SONGS AND SPIRITUALS.
  HOLLANDER, JOHN (ED.)
  (1993)
 



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