Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Robert Lowell

I found Lowell's use of the 54th Infantry in the poem For the Union Dead interesting. Since I have some background knowledge on the 54th from the moive Glory, I was unsure why Lowell would use their image in his poem. After doing some research, I found out that Lowell was the distant cousin of Robert Shaw, was the commander of the 54th and was burried with his troops whic was uncommon itself and remarkable because all of his troops were black. I wonder if Lowell would have used their story in the poem if he wasn't related to Shaw and knew his story.

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