It begins with an epigraph taken from the Latin motto of the Society of the Cincinnati but slightly modified – "Relinquunt Omnia Servare rem Publicam.
It begins with an epigraph taken from the Latin motto of the Society of the Cincinnati but slightly modified – "Relinquunt Omnia Servare rem Publicam." It mentions William James "at the dedication" and "a commercial photograph" of "Hiroshima boiling" on Boylston Street. These all draw attention to a monument that "sticks like a fishbone" and which was designed by St. Gaudens. The monument, like this poem, commemorates the all-black 54th Massachussetts and its leader Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. FTP, name this 1964 elegy by Robert Lowell.
It begins with an epigraph taken from the Latin motto of the Society of the Cincinnati but slightly modified – "Relinquunt Omnia Servare rem Publicam.
“{For the Union Dead}”