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"With All Flags Flying" by Anne Tyler

Does anyone know of a good poem that sums up this short story's theme?
  

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0 00 00“With All Flags Flying”:00 00Themes and Connections00“Old Men” by Ogden Nash02br 02br 00People expect old men to die, 02br 00They do not really mourn old men. 02br 00Old men are different. People look 02br 00At them with eyes that wonder when...

  • 0 00 00“With All Flags Flying”:00 00Themes and Connections00“Old Men” by Ogden Nash02br 02br 00People expect old men to die, 02br 00They do not really mourn old men.
  • 02br 00Old men are different.
  • People look 02br 00At them with eyes that wonder when...
  • 02br 00People watch with unshocked eyes; 02br 00But the old men know when an old man dies.
  • 02br 00“00Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town” by Pearl Jam02br 02br 00I seem to recognize your face02br 00haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it02br 00cannot find the candle of thought to light your name02br 00lifetimes are catching up with me02br 00all these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place02br 00but no one's ever taken me02br 00hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
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0 00 00“With All Flags Flying”:00 00Themes and Connections00“Old Men” by Ogden Nash02br
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00People expect old men to die, 02br
00They do not really mourn old men. 02br
00Old men are different. People look 02br
00At them with eyes that wonder when... 02br
00People watch with unshocked eyes; 02br
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -- Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bri
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Yes, "Lineage" by Margarate Walker

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