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"Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop
Summary: In addition to being the name of Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "Sestina" reminds us of its difficult, complex form and enhances the emphasis on the predetermining, fatal forces that navigate the character's lives. The six repeating end-words in the poem -- "grandmother", "child", "house", "stove", "almanac", and "tears" -- all serve to underline this meaning. As the six end-words repeat themselves in a predetermined order, so the world described in the poem is bound to the predetermined rules of the stars represented in the almanac.
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