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		<title>Song of Myself (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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		<title>I Hear America Singing</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[An anthem of labor and individuality, “I Hear America Singing” gathers many voices into one democratic chorus.]]></description>
		
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		<title>O Captain! My Captain!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whitman’s elegy for Lincoln balances public exultation with private grief in a rare, formally rhymed lament.]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whitman’s Lincoln elegy braids lilac, star, and thrush into a ritual of grief and renewal in free verse.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blueberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Neighbors trade lively talk over a bumper crop in “Blueberries,” where burn, botany, and community meet.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Love and a Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A stranger’s arrival tests a bridegroom’s compassion and fidelity in Frost’s haunting moral parable “Love and a Question.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Tuft of Flowers</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In “The Tuft of Flowers,” a mower’s act transforms solitude into fellowship, joining labor and grace through nature.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Going for Water</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A twilight errand becomes enchantment in “Going for Water,” where nature and imagination coexist in quiet wonder.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Vantage Point</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From solitude, Frost’s “The Vantage Point” looks upon life and death, then turns to the living earth for quiet belonging.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Revelation</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In “Revelation,” Frost explores our need to hide and to be found, turning speech itself into a form of revelation.]]></description>
		
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