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        <title><![CDATA[ Let's start by putting the line in context, shall we? The line reads...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Let's start by putting the line in context, shall we? The line reads as follows: In the small coffin of his house, the pensioner,A veteran of the African campaign,Bends, as if threading an eternal needle;One-eyed as any grave, his skull, cropped wool, Notice the other words there: &quot;eternal,&quot; &quot;grave,&quot; and &quot;skull.&quot; Taken together with the line about the coffin, this poem is saying (and not that subtly) that this...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;Two Poems on the Passing of an Empire,&quot; what seems to be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;Two Poems on the Passing of an Empire,&quot; what seems to be suggested by comparing the pensioner's house to a coffin?]]></description>
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