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The Shield of Achilles

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Rick Brown: A Bloody Torpor: The Banality of Violence in Auden's "The Shield of Achilles"

Poem Details

Original Publication Year:

1952

Poet:

W. H. Auden

Poetic Form:

Couplet

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