Missing Dates by William Empson

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Missing Dates

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The wa .........
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William Empson

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Mike Farman (8/23/2007 8:35:00 AM)
Fascinated by this villanelle, but unable to penetrate its true meaning (if it has one) Most poems begin from the specific and may progress to a generalisation....this starts out with a generalisation and stays with it, unless I'm missing something. Would be glad to hear somebody tell me that I'm wrong and give their interpretation of this poem.