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The Mediterranean (poem)

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that "The Mediterranean" stands out, together with "The Cross" and "The Last Days on Alice", as a poem where Tate explores "the difference between merely perceiving (
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and ponders about himself, the mythic dimension of classical culture, and the United States.
32:"The Mediterranean" is written from the perspective of an American in correspondence with a 403: 114: 442: 97: 71: 84:, meaning "What end, great king, do you set to their ordeals?" In Tate's version, 287: 21: 251: 199: 59: 75: 42: 37: 260: 256: 46:. The protagonist visits a vaguely Aeneidean setting at the 62:
which is a modified version of a line from book I of the
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Allen Tate
classical
Virgil
Aeneid
Mediterranean Sea
epitaph
Venus
Jupiter
Aeneas
Lillian Feder
The Kenyon Review
Coleridgean
Arnoldian
The Southern Review


"Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry"
ISBN
9781118785126
The Kenyon Review
JSTOR
4333057
"The Mirrors of Analogy: Three Poems by Allen Tate"
The Southern Review
Full poem - Poets.org
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Allen Tate
Ode to the Confederate Dead

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