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A poem about this war declares “Autumn is desolation in the plot” and is set in a place where “the brute curiosity of an angel's stare / turns you . . . to stone.” In a poem set during this war, an old woman leans out of an attic (0[1])and (20[1]0[1])shouts (20[1])“Shoot, (0[1])if (20[1])you must, (20[4])this (20[1])old (20[1]0[1])gray (20[1])head, (20[5]0[2])/ but (20[1])spare your country’s (20[1])flag.” (20[3]0[1])The line “row after row with strict impunity” (0[1])opens an Allen (*) Tate ode to fallen soldiers (10[2])in this war (10[1]0[1])that inspired (10[2])a student’s poem that describes how “savage servility / slides by on grease.” A monument to this war “sticks like a fishbone / in the city’s throat” in a poem that describes “St. Gaudens’ shaking” relief in the Boston Common. For 10 points, name this war that inspired Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead.” ■END■ (10[8]0[1])

ANSWER: American Civil War [or the United States Civil War; accept any answer involving a war between the Confederate States of America and the Union; accept Confederacy in place of Confederate States]
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