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Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Revising to Unify the Split Self

The revision process in the snippet reveals how the speaker evolves from calling into an empty room to embracing aloneness as a unifying force rather than a pathetic state. The word 'repurposed' symbolizes the effort to bring conflicting selves together, leading to a journey of defamiliarization and eventual unification. This transformation represents a progression from a split self to a complete whole, ultimately finding solace in aloneness as a state of unity, not loneliness.

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