This poem mentions a photograph of a Mosler safe which "survived the blast"
This poem mentions a photograph of a Mosler safe which "survived the blast" inHiroshima. The "wasp-waisted" title figures of this poem are said to "grow slimmerand younger each year". The writer sees (+) "drained faces of Negro school-childrenrise like balloons" from his television. This poem mentions "Puritan-pumpkin colored girders" and "yellow dinosaur (*) steamshovels" as signs of the construction of a parking garage and ends by comparing cars to fish and claiming "a savage servility/ slides by on grease". A central object in this poem is "propped by a plank" and "sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat". For ten points, name this poem about a Civil War memorial in Boston written by Robert Lowell.
This poem mentions a photograph of a Mosler safe which "survived the blast"
For The Union Dead