Can someone please explain this poem to me? https://allpoet

he fuggged another dudes wife lmao

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>>8623407
Crane was homosexual, the poem talks about a heterosexual experience with one of his closest friend's wives, the wife of biographer critic Malcolm Crowley.

It's Crane's farewell to poetry and to life. It was the last new poem of his to be published.
Most of Crane's poetry is up for interpretation, it's just the way he wrote. People disagree on a lot of his poems.
Look at his longest work, The Bridge. It's an optimistic Whitmanian song of American ingenuity, an antithesis to Eliot's Wasteland. It focused a lot on the architecture of New York, praising it in song both to the effect of metaphor and literally. Now consider the title of "The Broken Tower". It was more likely than not meant as a farewell. It's despair in Crane's signature lateral eloquence.

Anyone have any particular Crane lines in their head a lot?
'minstrel galleons of Carib fire' keeps coming up.

>>8624110
>It's an optimistic Whitmanian song of American ingenuity, an antithesis to Eliot's Wasteland. It focused a lot on the architecture of New York, praising it in song both to the effect of metaphor and literally.
This sounds amazing. Do i need to read anything else before I jump into The Bridge? I've already read The Wasteland a ton.

>>8624155
I get "Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas,The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space" in my head a lot, even if Cape Hatteras is maybe the hokiest section of The Bridge.

>>8624320
Read his first collection White Buildings first.

>>8624155
I love his description of the sea in Voyages, "Her undinal vast belly moonward bends," and how the shapes of the letters in the line resemble the rolling waves.

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>>8624320
Not in particular, having read The Wasteland you'll see where Crane drew inspiration and the opposite parallels he wrote. It's the American pseudo-epic.

OP, in here M. Bloom talks about it a good bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRpRBMmD27k