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| | On "The Gift Outright" |
 | | Omit the thirteenth line and the poem is still a very good, though undoubtedly a very different, onein some sense, perhaps, the "basic poem" to which the apparently gratuitous reminder of war is the poet's own gift outright. |
 | | Except that, on the occasion, he was unable to read more than a few lines of the poem, troubled as he was by the sun's glare that bright, cold January day, but at least as much by the poem's newness to him, his unfamiliarity with and uncertainty about the way it went. |
 | | But in terms of the explicit or subterranean political allegiances of poetry, Frost's position--lone sage facing and possessing the landscape for the nation--is an affirmation of the American status quo that is difficult for poets to ignore. |
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