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Explain paradox in the poem The Gift Outright by Robert Frost.

Explain paradox in the poem The Gift Outright by Robert Frost.

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  1. The poem shows the paradoxical nature of one belonging to a nation. The relation is paradoxical specially in American context. These sentences describe the paradoxes perfectly-

    1. “Possessing what we were unpossessed by”
    2. “Possessed by what we no more possessed”
    3. “It was ourselves we were withholding from our land”

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