Rober Lowell

Te poem by Robert Lowell seems as if he was remembering his mother's death and what he had gone through during that time. He tells the story in a poem in a sequential order from being in the hospital, being in the car with her dead body and finally in the cemetery burying her.

In the hospital we can see that he remembers that the nurse could only speak in Italian. We also see that, he kind of knew that his mom was going to die because he says that there is only a week left of her existence. By thinking about all this Robert Lowell starts to tear and I guess does cry.

When he gets his mother's casket in the car he gets very descriptive by saying, "the whole shoreline of the Golfo di Genova was breaking into fiery flowers. The crazy yellow and azure sea-sleds blasting like jack-hammers across the spumante-bubbling, wake of our liner." In these lines he's basically talking about or describing his emotions. Then he goes on talking about his Ford vehicle where the mother is traveling first class in the hold. Then the author talks about the black and gold casket and how it resembles with the great Napoleon's casket. Since Napoleon was a very noble man in his time he referred his mom's casket with Napoleon's. He saw the importance because the mother was very important in Robert's life just as Napoleon was important to his people.

Its so hard writing down what you see in a poem. Well this is the best I can do so far, and I'm going to try my best as for the next couple paragraphs. I just wanted you to know that I kind of thought the next verse or stanza was important Robert's life and I'm going too see if I can make you understand that.

Well what I see is that the mother is being buried in the winter time. We can tell when the author says "sub-zero whether," "soil was changing to stone," "blinding snowdrifts," all these lines were describing the coldest in the winter time. Then he goes on by saying ""unhistoric" soul to come here was Father, now buried beneath his recent unweathered pink-veined slice of marble." When Robert says "recent" you can guess that it wasn't long ago that his father had past away. When Robert said "unhistoric" is seemed as if him and his dad weren't close at all. His dad was some sort of business man who basically or I can tell never had time to spend with his son. Even on the father's grave it said "Occasionem cognosce," which means, "recognize (your) opportunity," this seemed like he even died during a business deal or something. The engravement on his grave seemed like he was selling something, unlike other's whose graves say Rest In Peace or something better. The engravement also felt as if he was on a commercial you know. Could have been a marketer and was doing an ad you know.

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