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		<title>I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dickinson’s stark vision of death and consciousness — a study in silence, interruption, and the limits of vision.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Bells</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A sound-symphony of life turning to alarm and elegy—an analysis of Poe’s metrics, refrain, and the psychology of noise.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Annabel Lee</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lyrical elegy of love and loss in a kingdom by the sea.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening</title>
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