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M. Jimmie Killingsworth suggested that this poem’s imagery was inspired by Edward H. Dixon’s The Organic Law of the Sexes. The less canonical, first published version of this poem asks, “whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead” and includes several sets of four-dot ellipses, such as after the phrase (10[1])“Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous.” This poem describes an object for which “the globe lay preparing quintillions of years” in a stanza that begins, “Gentlemen look on this wonder.” This poem’s third section extensively describes a farmer with five sons, (10[4]-5[1])and its (10[1])seventh and eighth sections emulate (10[1])a slave (10[1])auction. (10[1]-5[1])The title (10[2]-5[1])declaration is followed by the line (10[1])“The armies (10[1])of those I love (10[1])engirth me (10[1])and (10[1])I engirth (-5[1])them” (10[1])in, for 10 points, what Walt Whitman poem praising the human (10[1])anatomy? (-5[1])■END■ (10[6])

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