Wordplay with flower and arose.

Pudor meaning due shame, bashment, modesty. Pejorocracy from pejor, worse or bad, and cracy, rule or dominion. Together, a shameful negative rule.

This line is so powerful. A bulk of the poem is concerned with the ways humanities wonders and accomplishments are turned into ruins by horrible acts of violence. History repeats. After Hiroshima, after WW2, the victors claim these atrocities are necessary evils, but is the death worth it? All that’s left is ruins and maggots. Powerful rhetorical question.

Another pointed addition of emphasis making it clear O’hara’s point is that a controlling mother will be resented because she is restricting her children from seeing and experiencing formative things in childhood

separating this line from the previous adds intense dramatic emphasis

O’Hara runs through his whole day, mundane points and all, before his day ends with the shock of finding out Billie Holiday has died. I don’t know if the details surrounding her death were that public back then, but it’s ironic that he goes through his routine, start to finish, accomplishing all these tasks, mean while Holiday was locked in a hotel room dying. There’s a pointed contrast there. His day was full of events (monotonous ones) while hers was spent essentially in a prison before it ends with her death.