Irish poet Ledwidge’s “June” is a carpé diem poem that takes on special meaning given that the author died in World War I.
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June Is Short and We Must Joy in It
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I Am Lazarus, Come Back from the Dead
Eliot makes devastating use of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
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