A collection of essays by Lewis Lapham intended as "Variations" on this poem discusses Timothy McVeigh in its entry "Bomb-O-Gram.
A collection of essays by Lewis Lapham intended as "Variations" on this poem discusses Timothy McVeigh in its entry "Bomb-O-Gram." This poem parenthetically describes "How serious people's faces have become." "Bracelets with so many amethysts" and "rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds" are worn by characters in this poem, which describes a ruler who has assembled a scroll "replete with titles and imposing names." At its conclusion, one of thispoem's two speakers is anxious because "night has fallen," and "some who have just returned from the border" say that the title figures are gone. Members of an empire assemble in a forum at the beginning of this poem, which calls the title group "some kind of solution." For 10 points, name this poem by Constantine Cavafy that gave its name to a novella about Colonel Joll torturing the Magistrate authored by J. M. Coetzee.
A collection of essays by Lewis Lapham intended as "Variations" on this poem discusses Timothy McVeigh in its entry "Bomb-O-Gram.
"Waiting for the Barbarians"