The speaker of this poem accuses the reader of being a "mummy, in time" after claiming that "You shift your sea-space blindly.
The speaker of this poem accuses the reader of being a "mummy, in time" after claiming that "You shift your sea-space blindly." Animals described in the poem include "gray lean spiders," a toothless "hound bitch" and a "blind crab," and its author proposed that the Narcissistic motif in this poem was broken with the line about a jaguar leaping "For his own image in a jungle pool." The first stanza mentions "splayed leaves" that "pile up, of nature the causal sacrament, / To the seasonal eternity of death," after this poem opens "Row after row with strict impunity" in describing objects that "yield their names to the element." Exalting "Stonewall, Stonewall" before describing sunken hemp fields like Malvern Hill and Antietam, FTP, name this poem that commemorates Civil War casualties in a Southern graveyard, by Allen Tate.
The speaker of this poem accuses the reader of being a "mummy, in time" after claiming that "You shift your sea-space blindly.
"{Ode to the Confederate Dead}"