Original poem reprinted online here: "For Louis Pasteur" by Edgar Bowers Originally read: April 22, 2013 More information about the Poet: Edgar Bowers So the version I have is from "Poemhunter" which I cannot find online now. When I searched for another version of this poem, I found that there's a line missing in the beginning, "Who is Apollo?' College student" which serves as an epigraph to the poem. This is vastly important because the first line of the poem, "How shall a generation know its story / If it will know no other" refers to the anonymous college student -- the one who should learn and/or know the history of others. How important is the epigraph to the poem. It's not the core, but the quote sets up how the poem is read -- with intense allusions, and images, and anger, and history, and a bit more anger. Like the allusion to Louis Pasteur . There's a sense of anger because the speaker has to explain and correlate A...
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