The critic Robert Dupree relates this poem to the ideas of Spengler, drawing especial attention to the reference to those "who count [their] days and bow /
The critic Robert Dupree relates this poem to the ideas of Spengler, drawing especial attention to the reference to those "who count [their] days and bow / [their] heads with commemorial woe." Its poet wrote about it in the essay "Narcissus as Narcissus," where he said that the jaguar leaping "for his own image in a jungle pool" alters the Narcissus motif. Lillian Feder links this poem's leaf imagery to Glaucus's speech in Book VI of the Iliad. In the poem, the "splayed leaves" are said to "pile up…the casual sacrament" and "sough the rumour of mortality." The speaker mentions Zeno, Parmenides, and the battles of Malvern Hill and Bull Run. FTP, name this poem that takes place in a Southern graveyard, the best-known work of Allen Tate, which mirrors a Robert Lowell poem about deceased Civil War soldiers.
The critic Robert Dupree relates this poem to the ideas of Spengler, drawing especial attention to the reference to those "who count [their] days and bow /
{“Ode to the Confederate Dead”}