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ON BEING A WOMAN by DOROTHY PARKER

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHY IS IT, WHEN I AM IN ROME
Last Line: YET DO YOU UP AND LEAVE ME-THEN %I SCREAM TO HAVE YOU BACK AGAIN
Subject(s): LOVE; SOUL; WOMEN;

Poem Sources:

THE BROADVIEW ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY.
  ROSENGARTEN, HERBERT & GOLDRICK-JONES, AMANDA (EDS.)
  (1993)
 
BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSE. REV. ED.
  WELLS, CAROLYN (COMP.)
  (1934)
 



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