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AS YOU LEAVE THE ROOM by WALLACE STEVENS

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU SPEAK. YOU SAY: TODAY'S CHARACTER IS NOT
Last Line: AND YET NOTHING HAS BEEN CHANGED EXCEPT WHHAT IS %UNREAL, AS IF NOTHING HAD BEEN CHANGED AT ALL

Poem Sources:

SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY. VOLUME VIII: INTERVAL BETWEEN WARS.
  (1986)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 
PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND; SELECTED POEMS AND A PLAY. HOLLY STEVENS (ED.)
  STEVENS, WALLACE
  (1990)
 
COLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE. EDITED BY FRANK KERMODE AND JOAN RICHARDSON.
  STEVENS, WALLACE
  (1997)
 



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