Beginning with the epigraph Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam, images found in this poem include a cod-shaped weathervane and "wasp-waisted" monuments.
Beginning with the epigraph Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam, images found in this poem include a cod-shaped weathervane and "wasp-waisted" monuments. Noting that the poem's central location has no World War II monument, the poet points out a photograph on Boylston Street showing Hiroshima burning over the "Rock of Ages", which is in fact a Mosler Safe. An abandoned aquarium that resembles the Sahara is discussed in the first and last stanzas of this work, and the fifteenth stanza describes the sight of weary black children going to a newly desegregated school, while William James is desribed as having been almost able to "hear the bronze Negroes breathe." Centering on the digging of a parking garage beneath St. Gaudens' Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, for 10 points identify this Robert Lowell poem.
Beginning with the epigraph Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam, images found in this poem include a cod-shaped weathervane and "wasp-waisted" monuments.
“{For the Union Dead”}