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This page strips a person down from myth to ordinary lack, ending with a curt acceptance of human limitation.

The title and closing line do most of the work. By naming the end of the twine and then reducing the subject to 'a man / with no money,' the poem feels like a hard, almost comic deflation of legend.

Under 'The End Of The Twine', a figure is stripped from legend to lack - 'no longer a myth' but 'a man / with no money' - and the curt 'And that / raps it up' deflates the whole story.