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HOW by PHILIP LARKIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW HIGH THEY BUILD HOSPITALS!
Last Line: HOW FEW PEOPLE ARE, %HELD APART BY ACRES %OF HOUSING, AND CHILDREN %WITH THEIR SHALLOW VIOLENT EYES

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS. ANTHONY THWAITE (ED.)
  LARKIN, PHILIP
  (1989)
 



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