Up Rising (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Howard Duncan
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: 1960’s, United States or Americans, Vietnam War, War, Fame, Bombs, Devils or demons, Presidents, Satan or Satanism, Heads of state, Military art or science, Eagles
The Poem
“Up Rising,” in the tradition of all good political poetry, casts its shadow onto public discourse in ways that are both instructive and artistic. The poem extends to slightly over two pages of free verse. In a play on words, the title resembles the single word “uprising”—evocative of political insurrection—yet because it is written as two words, it suggests the ominous emergence of dark, sinister forces in America that are the foci of the poem’s meditation.
The first line mentions “Johnson,” a reference to Lyndon Baines Johnson, United States...
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