Modernist Aesthetics
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W. H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen
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Wallace Stevens
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Domination of Black
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Gertrude Stein
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Sacred Emily
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Mina Loy
The Widow's Jazz
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To use the word "cuckold" as a verb, like Loy does in this context, would mean for the husband to let death take his wife. She feels betrayed by her husband's death and that he has given her away like some property behind her back.