In Memoriam — Imagery and Motifs: Yew tree

Jon Lanestedt, University of Oslo

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• Section 2: "Old Yew, which graspest at the stones"
• Section 2: "gazing on thee, sullen tree"
• Section 39: "Old warder of these buried bones"
• Section 39: "Dark yew, that graspest at the stones"
• Section 76: "the mouldering of a yew"

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