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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
War
Bloody
Transformed
Notice
Wars
Poet
Poetry
Politics
Acute
Taken
Chronic

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