began a poem "Dugan's deathward, darling." Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), in her "In the Waiting Room," wrote: "you are an I,/you are an Elizabeth,/you are one of them." Possibly the most moving use of a poet's own name in English poetry is Ben Jonson's "On My First Son":
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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