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Memorial Day is not victims’ day
Over at Contentions, I reflect upon Memorial Day by contrasting Allen Tate’s “Ode to the Confederate Dead” to Robert Lowell’s thirty-years-later “For the Union Dead.” Twenty years in the South elevated Tate above Lowell in my estimation.
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These poems are a generation apart in time and a cosmos apart in mentality.
The sound on the 60s:
"Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the blessèd break.
The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
a savage servility
slides by on grease."
I still remember how good it once sounded in tutorials, although now it seems just a cheap score, gliding by on its own grease.
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