Skunk Hour
Poetry analysis: Skunk Hour, by Robert Lowell
In beginning of "Skunk Hour" (the first four stanzas to be more precise), Robert Lowell gives the sense of a Maine sea town that is slowly declining. For example, lines 4 through 6 state the following: "Her farmer / is first selectman in our village; / she's in her dotage." With the usage of the word "dotage" in line 6, it clearly suggests that the condition of Maine is in its declining years.
For a better understanding of its poor state, stanza two (7-12) presents itself as follows:
Thirsting for the hierarchy privacy of Queen Victoria's century, she buys up all the eyesores facing her shore, and lets them fall.
This stanza shows how dire need of help the city of Maine is because it craves for the status of Queen Victoria, who was the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for quite some time. …show more content…
His spirit is very low and sad, supported by line 33: "My ill-spirited sob in each blood cell." The world is in essence a place that delivers pains, because he judges himself by saying, "I myself is hell; / nobody's here" as if there is no
In beginning of "Skunk Hour" (the first four stanzas to be more precise), Robert Lowell gives the sense of a Maine sea town that is slowly declining. For example, lines 4 through 6 state the following: "Her farmer / is first selectman in our village; / she's in her dotage." With the usage of the word "dotage" in line 6, it clearly suggests that the condition of Maine is in its declining years.
For a better understanding of its poor state, stanza two (7-12) presents itself as follows:
Thirsting for the hierarchy privacy of Queen Victoria's century, she buys up all the eyesores facing her shore, and lets them fall.
This stanza shows how dire need of help the city of Maine is because it craves for the status of Queen Victoria, who was the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for quite some time. …show more content…
His spirit is very low and sad, supported by line 33: "My ill-spirited sob in each blood cell." The world is in essence a place that delivers pains, because he judges himself by saying, "I myself is hell; / nobody's here" as if there is no