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In the poem "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph", Anne

Sexton alludes to the flight of Icarus and Daedalus and to "To a Friend

Whose Work Has Come to Nothing" to convey a message to a friend. I think

this poem was written to reassure a friend that what she did was the right

thing. Perhaps a father figure of the friend advised her to do something

and she defied him, making herself feel worried that she did the wrong

William Butler Yeats once wrote a poem titled "To a Friend Whose

Work has Come to Nothing". It was a poem believed to be written to



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