After Raphael Summary
Lucie Brock-Broido

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After Raphael Summary

Lucie Brock-Broido’s “After Raphael” is the second poem in her third poetry collection, 2004’s Trouble in Mind. It is a poem about grief and pressing forward in time. Having lost her parents, the speaker is faced with the process of grief, along with the realization that she herself is mortal. The same time that seems to stand still in deep sadness does not actually stand still and will...

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