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FINAL INCH by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: TWAS LIKE A MAELSTROM, WITH A NOTCH
Last Line: WHICH ANGUISH WAS THE UTTEREST - THEN %TO PERISH, OR TO LIVE?

Poem Sources:

AMERICAN POETRY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. VOLUME 2. HERMAN MELVILLE TO TRUMBULL STICKNEY; AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY; FOLK SONGS AND SPIRITUALS.
  HOLLANDER, JOHN (ED.)
  (1993)
 
A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY; ENGLISH & AMERICAN. REVISED EDITION.
  WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.)
  (1950)
 
CHIEF MODERN POETS OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA. 5TH EDITION. EDITED BY GERALD DEWITT SANDERS, JOHN HERBERT NELSON, AND M.L. ROSENTHAL.
  SANDERS, GERALD DEWITT (ED.)
  (1970)
 
POEMS.
  DICKINSON, EMILY
  (1995)
 



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