claim: The 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools and was single-elimination.
evidence: `` Ode to the Confederate Dead '' is a long poem by the American poet-critic Allen Tate published in 1928 in Tate 's first book of poems , Mr. Pope and Other Poems .. Allen Tate. Allen Tate. Ode. Ode : Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867. It is one of Tate 's best-known poems and considered by some critics to be his most `` important . ''. Heavily influenced by the work of T. S. Eliot , this Modernist poem takes place in a graveyard in the South where the narrator grieves the loss of the Confederate soldiers buried there .. T. S. Eliot. T. S. Eliot. Modernist poem. Modernist poetry. Confederate soldiers. Confederate army. However , unlike the `` Ode '' to the Confederate Dead written by the 19th-century American poet Henry Timrod , Tate 's `` Ode '' is not a straightforward ode .. Ode. Ode : Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867. Henry Timrod. Henry Timrod. Instead , Tate uses the graveyard and the dead Confederate soldiers as a metaphor for his narrator 's troubled state of mind , and the poem charts the narrator 's dark stream of consciousness , as he contemplates -LRB- or tries to avoid contemplating -RRB- his own mortality .. Confederate soldiers. Confederate army. stream of consciousness. stream of consciousness ( narrative mode )