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Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving But Drowning”
A Visual Interpretation
October 27, 2020

illustration of family waving on a doorstep illustration of a man in a coffin surrounded by people talking about him illustration of a wake at a funeral home illustration of a man drowning in the ocean

[.smalltext]Source: Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning,” from Collected Poems of Stevie Smith (New York: New Directions, 1983). Copyright © 1972 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.[.smalltext]

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