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Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" is very much a poem .of place, and in general the poem's imagery creates internally the significance of the specific landmarks in Boston which Lowell uses to carry his themes. Nevertheless, much of the .material in the poem has special associations for Bostonian~, associations which are perhaps not so readily apparent to others; these associations both enrich one"s understanding of the poem and in some cases help to explain why Lowell has chosen a particular vehicle for his poetic statement. The "bronze weathervane co d" on the derelict South Boston Aquarium, which has "lost half its scales;" fits generally into the pattern of the poem's concern for the loss of continuity, here the continuity of organic life. The evolution of the fish from freedom to captivity to devitalization to ultimate disintegration is conveyed partly by the bronze cod's loss of its seales. What may be less .obvious to the general reader is that in Boston, indeed in Massachusetts generally, the cod is also intimately associated in the public mind with the existence and identity of the state. The significance .of the cod for the early economy of the colony is a familiar faet, and the name given to Massachusetts' most striking geographical ieature, "Cape Cod," reflects the cod's importance in the life of the early settlers. The cod is not an "official" symbol of the state; nevertheless, it is so accepted and time-honored a symbol that the most prominent feature of the main legislative chamber in Bulfineh's State Housewhich Lowelllater draws into his poem is a great golden cod which hangs above the legislators as they conduct their deliberations. "The sacred cod in the State House" is the highlight of tours of the

«For the Union Dead»: A Bostonian's Notes