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For the Union Dead
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Poem Criticism
Thomas Travisano: On "For the Union Dead"
Helen Vendler: On "For the Union Dead"
Alan Williamson: On "For the Union Dead"
Paul Breslin: On "For the Union Dead"
Poem Details
Original Publication Year:
1960
Poet:
Robert Lowell
Poetic Form:
Quatrain
Other Poems by the Same Poet
Commander Lowell
"To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage"
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
For the Union Dead
Epilogue
Central Park
The March II
The March I
July in Washington
The Mouth of the Hudson
A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich
Inauguration Day: January 1953
Man and Wife
Poems that Share Poetic Form
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)
The Armadillo
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The Need of Being Versed In Country Things
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Gathering Leaves
In a Disused Graveyard
Desert Places
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Refugee Ship
To a Dark Girl
The Boy Soprano
Medusa
The Crows
Women
A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Miracles
Where It Ends
The Truth The Dead Know
Esta Noche
Esta Noche
Black Tambourine
Chaplinesque
Episode of Hands
Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
For Love
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time
The Haunted Oak
#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-")
