The speaker of this poem asks "What shall we say who have the knowledge / Carried to the heart?" after claiming "Night is the beginning and the end /
The speaker of this poem asks "What shall we say who have the knowledge / Carried to the heart?" after claiming "Night is the beginning and the end / And in between the ends" is "distraction." This poem's speaker claims that "You know the rage" of ($) "muted Zeno and Parmenides" and "you know" "the twilight certainty of an animal," like the "hound bitch / Toothless and dying, in a musty cellar / Hears the wind only." This poem mentions how the (*) "leaves flying, plunge, and expire" and begins "Row after row with strict impunity / The headstones yield their names to the element." For ten points, identify this Allen Tate poem that memorializes Southerners who perished during the Civil War.
The speaker of this poem asks "What shall we say who have the knowledge / Carried to the heart?" after claiming "Night is the beginning and the end /
“{Ode to the Confederate Dead}”