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...