The speaker of this poem still sighs for a "dark downward and vegetating kingdom" that has been destroyed.
The speaker of this poem still sighs for a "dark downward and vegetating kingdom" that has been destroyed. This poem describes a man who is "as lean as a compass needle" and "has an angry wrenlike vigilance, a greyhound's gentle tautness". This poem describes some "yellow dinosaur steamshovels" that "were grunting as they cropped up tons of mush and grass to gouge their underworld garage". This poem, set in a "Sahara of snow" where an aquarium used to be, ends with the lines, "a savage servility slides by on grease". This poem's speaker recalls how William James "could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe" at the dedication of the monument it describes. For 10 points, name this poem about the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston written by Robert Lowell.
The speaker of this poem still sighs for a "dark downward and vegetating kingdom" that has been destroyed.
"For the Union Dead"