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Ralph Waldo Emerson in Parnassus, offers that this poem is about the death of a poet and his poetical mistress, but suggests a prize be given to an essay that explains its "frames and allusions." It describes the "mutual flame" of the two figures with a metaphysical conceit "Two distincts: divisions none/Number there in love was slain." This poem's preoccupation of the paradox of unity in duality is further illustrated by such lines as "Property was thus appaled/That the self was not the same/Neither two nor one was called." Historicized interpretations have offered that the title (*) figures refer to either John and Ursula Salisbury or Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. First published in a collection edited by Robert Chester, Love's Martyr or Rosalins Complaint; it attributes "Single Nature's double name" to the two titular birds. For 10 points, identify this poem by William Shakespeare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson in Parnassus, offers that this poem is about the death of a poet and his poetical mistress, but suggests a prize be given to an essay that explains its "frames and allusions.
"The {Phoenix and the Turtle}"