In an essay on the composition of this poem, its author describes its rhythm as a series of modulations and mentions the unexpected rhyme at the end of a line about "the brute curiosity of an angel's stare.
In an essay on the composition of this poem, its author describes its rhythm as a series of modulations and mentions the unexpected rhyme at the end of a line about "the brute curiosity of an angel's stare." This poem asks "What shall we say of the bones, unclean, whose verdurous anonymity will grow?" This poem ends with the image of a "decomposing wall" and a serpent hiding in a mulberry bush. Its author claimed that it was about solipsism and "active faith" in the essay "Narcissus as Narcissus." This poem is punctuated by four two-line stanzas with images of (*) leaves flying and crying. This poem, published in Mr. Pope and Other Poems, is about a man stopping at the gate of a graveyard, and begins "Row after row with strict impunity / the headstones yield their names to the element." For 10 points, name this poem by Allen Tate which inspired Robert Lowell to write "For the Union Dead."
In an essay on the composition of this poem, its author describes its rhythm as a series of modulations and mentions the unexpected rhyme at the end of a line about "the brute curiosity of an angel's stare.
"Ode to the Confederate Dead"