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Annotated by:
- Aull, Felice
- Date of entry: Mar-05-2002
Summary
Grief is addressed as a dog who makes the transition from homelessness to acceptance as an integral part of the household. Told in the first person, the poem expresses the narrator's recognition that grief should not be slighted from "the back door," but must be trusted, "coax[ed] . . . into the house," and fully integrated with the self "before winter comes."
Primary Source
Life in the Forest
Publisher
New Directions
Place Published
New York
Edition
1978
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