Ode for the American Dead in Asia (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas McGrath
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Ode
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Ode
The Poem
Thomas McGrath’s “Ode for the American Dead in Asia” is poem composed of three numbered stanzas of fourteen, fifteen, and fourteen lines, respectively. The subject of the poem, indicated by the title, is taken up with an extremely somber tone. Each of the stanzas, at least in significant part, is addressed to a “you”—the dead American solider in Korea. Too, in each stanza it is clear that many of the lines are addressed to a plural “you.” This, however, does not provide the poem with confusion and ambiguity; rather, it provokes in readers a realization...
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