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VARIATION ON PAIN by RITA DOVE

Poet Analysis

First Line: TWO STRINGS, ONE PIERCED CRY
Last Line: SO IS THE PAST FORGIVEN

Poem Sources:

THOMAS AND BEULAH; POEMS.
  DOVE, RITA
  (1986)
 
SELECTED POEMS.
  DOVE, RITA
  (1993)
 



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