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The Shadow on the Wall

[Clapp, Henry Jr.]. "The Shadow on the Wall." Saturday Press. 23 Oct. 1858: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

The haunting, "trembling" image of a lost lover is captured in the form of a shadow on the narrator's chamber wall. It follows him and is a part of him; he both eludes it and longs for it. The shadow grows less afraid as time passes and begins to dance. The narrator reveals the image's identity: his dead lover Adelaide.

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