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Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell Poems
| 1. | Harpo Marx | 6/12/2015 |
| 2. | July In Washington | 3/26/2015 |
| 3. | Water | 11/24/2014 |
| 4. | My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow | 4/8/2010 |
| 5. | Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid | 4/8/2010 |
| 6. | Sailing Home From Rapallo | 4/8/2010 |
| 7. | Mr. Edwards And The Spider | 4/8/2010 |
| 8. | After The Surprising Conversions | 4/8/2010 |
| 9. | Home After Three Months Away | 1/3/2003 |
| 10. | Homecoming | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage | 1/3/2003 |
| 12. | History | 1/3/2003 |
| 13. | The Drunken Fisherman | 1/3/2003 |
| 14. | Dolphin | 1/3/2003 |
| 15. | Waking In The Blue | 1/3/2003 |
| 16. | Epilogue | 1/3/2003 |
| 17. | Memories Of West Street And Lepke | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | For The Union Dead | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | Children Of Light | 1/3/2003 |
| 21. | Man And Wife | 1/3/2003 |
| 22. | Skunk Hour | 1/3/2003 |
| 23. | "To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage&Quot; | 1/20/2003 |
| 24. | The Old Flame | 1/3/2003 |
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The Old Flame
My old flame, my wife!
Remember our lists of birds?
One morning last summer, I drove
by our house in Maine. It was still
on top of its hill -
Now a red ear of Indian maize
was splashed on the door.
Old Glory with thirteen stripes
hung on a pole. The clapboard
was old-red schoolhouse red.
Inside, a new landlord,
a new wife, a new broom!
Atlantic seaboard antique shop
pewter and plunder
shone in each room.
A new frontier!
No running next door
now to phone the sheriff
for his taxi to Bath
and the State Liquor Store!
No ...
Homecoming
What was is ... since 1930;
the boys in my old gang
are senior partners. They start up
bald like baby birds
to embrace retirement.
At the altar of surrender,
I met you
in the hour of credulity.
He is considered by many critics to be the most important poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century.
His first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (Harcourt, Brace and Company,1944) and Lord Weary’s Castle (Harcourt, Brace and Company,1946) , for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 at the age of thirty, were influenced by his conversion from Episcopalianism to Catholicism and explored the dark side of America’s Puritan legacy.
Lowell was politically involved: he became a conscientious objector during the Second World War (was imprisoned as a result) , and actively protested against the war in Vietnam. He suffered from severe episodes of manic depression, for which he was repeatedly hospitalized.
Partly in response to his frequent breakdowns, and partly due to the influence of younger poets as W. D. Snodgrass and Allen Ginsberg, Lowell in the mid-1950s began to write more directly from personal experience, and loosened his adherence to traditional meter and form.
The result was a watershed collection, Life Studies (Faber and Faber,1959) , which forever changed the landscape of modern poetry, much as Eliot‘s The Waste Land had three decades before.
the poem is not correct. the last three stanzas are from Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Armadillo.' get it together whoever runs this site.