Ode to the Confederate Dead
work by Tate
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- In Allen Tate
In Tate’s best-known poem, “Ode to the Confederate Dead” (first version, 1926; rev. 1930), the dead symbolize the emotions that the poet is no longer able to feel. The poems written from about 1930 to 1939 broadened this theme of disjointedness by showing its effect on society, as in…
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