Explanation:
The poem opens with the poet watching the deserted South Boston Aquarium, which he had visited as a child. The ruined building is symbolic both of his lost childhood and of the decay of Boston, undergoing massive urban renewal, which upsets such milestones as the Statehouse and the sculpture of Colonel Shaw.
The statue causes the poet to think of Shaw, an abolitionist’s son and leader of the first black regiment in the Civil War. Shaw died in the war, and his statue is a monument to the heroic ideals of New England life, which are jeopardized in the present just as the statue itself is shaken by urban renewal.
Images of black children entering segregated schools reveal how the ideals for which Shaw and his men died were neglected after the Civil War. The poem’s final stanzas return to the aquarium. The poet pictures Shaw riding on a fish’s air bubble, breaking free to the surface, but in fact, the aquarium is abandoned and the only fish are fin-tailed cars.
This poem is a brilliant example of Lowell’s ability to link private turmoil to public disturbances. The loss of childhood in the early section of the poem expands to the loss of America’s early ideals, and both are brought together in the last lines to give the poem a public and private intensity.
The poem is organized into unrhymed quatrains of uneven length, allowing a measure of flexibility within a formal structure.
Answer:
The word defaulted means something normal? I don't understand because there is no picture.
Explanation:
Answer:non -fiction(a narrative )
An account of real-time event
Explanation:
Literature is divided into four parts drama,poetry,fiction,and non-fiction.
Answer:
A Child's True Feeling about His Careless Mother
Explanation:
in his work, <em>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass</em>, the American abolitionist, recounts his miserable life as a slave. In this excerpt, Douglass reveals the very personal angle to his pathetic life. A mother-son bond is sweetest and the most scared, yet he received no love and affection from his mother. Douglass has been denied 'soothing presence' and watchful care' that every child is entitled to receive. He, therefore, feels no close and passionate emotion upon the news of his mother's death. Though nature creates human relationship, it is love and care that cements the bonding and it the lack of it that makes human familiar or stranger. For Douglass, his mother was no more than a stranger. In life, his mother was like a non-existent entity, and in death she remains the same.
