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WHAT THEN? by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: HIS CHOSEN COMRADES THOUGHT AT SCHOOL
Last Line: BUT LOUDER SANG THAT GHOST, 'WHAT THEN?'

Poem Sources:

CHIEF MODERN POETS OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA. 5TH EDITION. EDITED BY GERALD DEWITT SANDERS, JOHN HERBERT NELSON, AND M.L. ROSENTHAL.
  SANDERS, GERALD DEWITT (ED.)
  (1970)
 
COLLECTED POEMS OF W. B. YEATS.
  YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER
  (1956)
 



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