In one poem, this author asks "sailor will your sword / whistle and fall and sink into the fat? / In the great ash-pit of Jehoshaphat". In another poem by him, the speaker declares "There are no monuments for the last war here; / on Boylston Street, a commercial photograph / shows Hiroshima boiling." A third poem by him says: "we have lost our summer millionaire, / who seemed to spring from an (*) L.L. Bean catalogue." The speaker declares "I myself am death" in that poem by him about "Nautilus Island's hermit heiress." This author of "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" wrote of "a savage servility" that "slides by on grease" at the end of a poem inspired by a statue of Colonel Shaw. For 10 points, name this poet of "Skunk Hour" and "For th
In one poem, this author asks "sailor will your sword / whistle and fall and sink into the fat? / In the great ash-pit of Jehoshaphat". In another poem by him, the speaker declares "There are no monuments for the last war here; / on Boylston Street, a commercial photograph / shows Hiroshima boiling." A third poem by him says: "we have lost our summer millionaire, / who seemed to spring from an (*) L.L. Bean catalogue." The speaker declares "I myself am death" in that poem by him about "Nautilus Island's hermit heiress." This author of "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" wrote of "a savage servility" that "slides by on grease" at the end of a poem inspired by a statue of Colonel Shaw. For 10 points, name this poet of "Skunk Hour" and "For the Union Dead."
In one poem, this author asks "sailor will your sword / whistle and fall and sink into the fat? /
Robert Lowell [or Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV]