 "Lord Weary's Castle" also includes the first of Lowell's idiosyncratic translations, including "War" (after Rimbaud), "The Shako" (after Rilke), and "Charles the Fifth and the Peasant" (after Valery), and these kinds of loose translations would appear again in later books, notably in "Imitations".In characterizing the book's overarching thematic concerns, Randall Jarrell wrote