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What Is The Theme Of The Poem A Secret Life By Stephan Dunn
at first i believed the poem, a secret life by stephan dunn, was going to be about a person living a double life. however i realized the secret life dunn was reffering to are the secrets we hold which caught my eye. i believe each and every one of us contain secrts, it is part o our human nature. as dunn mentiones, we shouln't have a secret life but we all keep our secrets inside, keeping it alive. i can personally relate to those secrets because i know we are scared or too embarressed to share to share with neither our closest friend. we have an obsession with proteting others or and oursleves, we forget to speak our minds and be honest. there are lines dunn analyzes this concept which are my favorite lines.

dunn describes secrets as fires
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