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LONG LAST by PHILIP LARKIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: SUDDENLY, NOT LONG BEFORE
Last Line: WHAT CAN IT DO EACH DAY %BUT HUNT THAT IMMINENT DOOR %THROUGH WHICH ALL THAT UNDERSTOOD %HAS HIDDEN

Poem Sources:

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



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