An Analysis of the Topic of the Poem by Thomas R. Edwards (2079 words, 9 pages)
Thomas R. EdwardsImagistically the poem is built upon "enclosure" -- burial by snow, thesubway's vaults, the truss of the El, the interred Union dead, the sword in the groove --foreshadowing the "mausoleum" of the last line. But these images suggest notonly constraint and death but ceremony, formal rituals like burial, ...
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