One of his poems “ For the union dead” talks about a civil war hero , Robert Shaw whose sister Josephine had married one of Lowell's ancestors. The poem is about, though it’s not sure, a family poem; and in it, Lowell quotes from a letter that Charles Russell Lowell wrote to , Josephine, about her brother's funeral: "I am thankful that they buried him with his niggers.' They were brave men and they were his men." "For the Union Dead" talks about not only the person who Robert Gould Shaw was but also the African American men. This poem is a really good example of Lowell’s ability to relate what was going on in his private life with the social
One of his poems “ For the union dead” talks about a civil war hero , Robert Shaw whose sister Josephine had married one of Lowell's ancestors. The poem is about, though it’s not sure, a family poem; and in it, Lowell quotes from a letter that Charles Russell Lowell wrote to , Josephine, about her brother's funeral: "I am thankful that they buried him with his niggers.' They were brave men and they were his men." "For the Union Dead" talks about not only the person who Robert Gould Shaw was but also the African American men. This poem is a really good example of Lowell’s ability to relate what was going on in his private life with the social