From On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the poems of Herman Melville. Edited, and with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Noonday Press, 1971.
Kill them in their flush of bloom
From On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the poems of Herman Melville. Edited, and with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Noonday Press, 1971.
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What do you think this poem is about?
Amazing illustration BTW.
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Oh I think it’s about war, how war cuts down young people. It’s from his Civil War stuff, so I think it’s specifically about that, but fits any time.
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