 Most of the poems in this volume are set in different locations within New England.In the poems "In Memory of Arthur Winslow" and "Mary Winslow," Lowell elegizes his deceased maternal grandparents, both of whom he would later write about in "Life Studies".He also writes about a physical fight that he had with his father (during which he "knocked [his] father down") in the poem "Rebellion"; Lowell's description of the same incident would appear later in multiple poems in his book "History".