"A poem is sort of an onion of contexts, and you can no more locate any of the important meanings exclusively in a part than you can locate a relation in one of its terms. The signiďŹcance of a part may be greatly modified or even in extreme cases completely reversed by later and larger parts and by the whole."
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Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (6 May 1914 â 15 October 1965) was an American poet, novelist, critic, children's book author and essayist.
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