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HART CRANE'S THE BRIDGE-TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43262/the-bridge-to-brooklyn-bridge

STRAND POETIC REVIEW OCT 10

HART CRANE'S¹ THE BRIDGE -TO BROOKLYN BRIDGEhas the unique featured of notes thereon inbuilt*² as a part of the noteworthy &famous poem & is his only 'long' poem format in 8 cycle 
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*¹HC structured 'the Bridge poesy
with notes within as you see
Labelling them 'marginal gloss'*³
poems in themselves not merely floss

*²refer to the marginal glosses (or side notes) 
that Crane strategically placed alongside
 the main poetic text.

*¹Hart Crane of Garrettsville
a tragic poet if you will
'The Bridge'  vision of America
jumped to his death north of Cuba
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