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NEXT, PLEASE by PHILIP LARKIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: ALWAYS TOO EAGER FOR THE FUTURE, WE
Last Line: A HUGE AND BIRDLESS SILENCE. IN HER WAKE %NO WATERS BREED OR BREAK
Subject(s): DEATH;

Poem Sources:

NEW POETS OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
  HALL, DONALD, & PACK, ROBERT, & SIMPSON, LOUIS (EDS.)
  (1957)
 
POETRY; A HARPERCOLLINS POCKET ANTHOLOGY.
  GWYNN, R.S. (ED.)
  (1993)
 
THE COLUMBIA ANTHOLOGY OF BRITISH POETRY. EDITED BY CARL WOODRING AND JAMES SHAPIRO.
  WOODRING, CARL (ED.)
  (1995)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. ANTHONY THWAITE (ED.)
  LARKIN, PHILIP
  (1989)
 



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