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Apostrophe A poetic device used to address absent or imaginary people or objects
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Apostrophe

A poetic device used to address absent or

imaginary people or objects

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Apostrophe

God’s World (excerpt)Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892)

O WORLD, I cannot hold thee close enough!

Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!

Thy mists that roll and rise!

Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag

And all but cry with color! That gaunt crag

To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!

World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!

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Aubade

A poem or song about lovers separating at dawn

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AubadeA Late AubadeRichard Wilbur (1968)

You could be sitting now in a carrelTurning some liver-spotted page,Or rising in an elevator-cageToward Ladies' Apparel.

You could be planting a raucous bedOf salvia, in rubber gloves,Or lunching through a screed of someone's lovesWith pitying head.

Or making some unhappy setterHeel, or listening to a bleakLecture on Schoenberg's serial technique.Isn't this better?

Think of all the time you are notWasting, and would not care to waste,Such things, thank God, not being to your taste.Think what a lot

Of time, by woman's reckoning,You've saved, and so may spend on this,You who had rather lie in bed and kissThan anything.

It's almost noon, you say? If so,Time flies, and I need not rehearseThe rosebuds-theme of centuries of verse.If you mustgo,

Wait for a while, then slip downstairsAnd bring us up some chilled white wine,And some blue cheese, and crackers, and some fineRuddy-skinned pears.


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