An early draft of this work featured a description of the "jawbone"-like white scar of Henry Lee Higginson.
An early draft of this work featured a description of the "jawbone"-like white scar of Henry Lee Higginson. One of the sketches that became this poem was entitled "One Gallant Rush", and, in an article on the writing of this poem, its author described as "Tahitian" the snow-shovels and fish mentioned in it. On Boylston Street, the narrator sees an ad for a Mosler safe, described as the "Rock of Ages" for surviving the bombing of Hiroshima. The narrator recalls when his "nose crawled like a snail on the glass" of a building that now "stands in a Sahara of snow," that building being the old South Boston Aquarium. FTP, name this poem by Robert Lowell which discusses Robert Gould Shaw's Civil War regiment.
An early draft of this work featured a description of the "jawbone"-like white scar of Henry Lee Higginson.
“{For the Union Dead}”