Poetry · Character
Morgan
A man whose life, in Bierce's reckoning, amounts to waste — a cautionary figure in the poet's gallery of squandered fates.
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Also known as XII A Wasted Life Of Morgan
First appearance: poetry
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The subject of the epitaph, a man who joined the Masons to betray their secrets but found nothing to reveal and died by his own hand.
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In XII: A Wasted Life: The subject of the epitaph, a man who joined the Masons to betray their secrets but found nothing to reveal and died…
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the speaker’s obsessive pursuit of the divine rose fragrance…
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