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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* "Porphyria's Lover" by [[Robert Browning]] starts off as a standard Victorian romantic poem about a man waiting in a cold, "cheerless" cottage for his lover Porphyria to arrive. She comes in out of the driving rain, kindles a fire, and pledges her love for the narrator. Then we get this:
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Perfectly pure and good: I found
A thing to do, and all her hair
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around,
And strangled her..."}}
* "[[Stepford Smiler|And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head.]]"
** By the same poet (Edwin Arlington Robinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevey, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: Miniver Cheevey, born too late/Scratched his head and kept on thinking/Miniver coughed and called it fate/[[The Alcoholic|And kept on drinking.]]
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