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    in my english class we are doing this project on a word that she gives you. and i have VOICE im not really sure where i can find somthing on voice....i have to have a poetry qoute and something else....PLEASE HELP!

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    Here's the text of 'A Coat' by WB Yeats, where he describes the change in his poetic voice. His early poems were ornate and flowery (the embroideries) , and then he changed to a sparser form of writing (walking naked) as it had become copied by so many and looked rather hackneyed:
    http://www.bartleby.com/147/31.html

    Does this help?

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