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| Title | Poet | Poem | Criticism Type | Tags |
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| Paula Bennett: On 754 ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--") | Emily Dickinson | 754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——) | Poem Criticism | Unaccaptable Self; Masculine Power; Speaker vs. Author; feminism; transgression; Woman artist |
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