For the Union Dead | Modern American Poetry

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Original Publication Year:

1960

Poet:

Robert Lowell

Poetic Form:

Quatrain

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For the Union Dead

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303 (The Soul selects her own Society)

754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)

712 (Because I could not stop for Death)

258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)

657 (I dwell in Possibility——)

613 (They shut me up in Prose——)

601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)

520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)

341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)

280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)

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The Need of Being Versed In Country Things

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Gathering Leaves

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The Boy Soprano

Medusa

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A Black Man Talks of Reaping

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#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")

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#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,")

#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-")

#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-")

#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-")

#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")

#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")

#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-")

#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")

#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")

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