"Look, the fixed stars, all just alike / as lack-land atoms split apart, / and the Republic summons Ike, / the mausoleum in her heart."

— Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)


Date
1959
Metaphor
"Look, the fixed stars, all just alike / as lack-land atoms split apart, / and the Republic summons Ike, / the mausoleum in her heart."
Metaphor in Context
Ice, ice. Our wheels no longer move.
Look, the fixed stars, all just alike
as lack-land atoms split apart,
and the Republic summons Ike,
the mausoleum in her heart
.
(p. 7, ll. 10-14)
Provenance
Reading Jennifer Schuessler's "A History of Odes to the Chief" in the New York Times. Week in Review, Wk 5. Sunday December 13, 2009.
Citation
Lowell, Robert. Life Studies and For the Union Dead. New York: The Noonday Press, 1964. Thirteenth printing, 1980.
Date of Entry
12/14/2009

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.