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Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas is his reaction to "The death of a friend."
He wrote this poem in 1637, about Edward King, his friend who died young.
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They beloieve he is a criminal because he is extremely smart and able-bodied, which means he poses a threat to the "equality" the government imposes in 2081.
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