This poem depicts a figure "Thirsting for / the hierarchic pride / of Queen Victoria's century" who buys all the "eyesores facing her shore."
The first tossup of the Editor's packet of Chicago Open 2007 is a tossup on the collection in which this poem appears. The only metaphor in tis poem occurs in the fifth stanza describing objects that "lay together, hull to hull, / where the graveyard shells on the town." The speaker comments on "fishnet's filled with orange cork" that a decorator uses to (+)  "brighten his shop for fall." This poem depicts a figure "Thirsting for / the hierarchic pride / of Queen Victoria's century" who buys all the "eyesores facing her shore." This poem begins by describing "Nautilus Island's hermit heiress" who "lives in her Spartan cottage." The speaker of this poem listens to a (*) radio playing "Love, O careless Love" while driving in his "Tudor Ford" before admitting in the sixth stanza, "I myself am hell, / nobody's here." This poem dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop, ends when the speaker observes the title creature "will not scare" when he catches it rummaging through a garbage can "jab[bing] her wedge-head in a cup / of sour cream." Collected in Life Studies, for 10 points, name this poem titled after the time of a scavenging animal, written by Robert Lowell.
The first tossup of the Editor's packet of Chicago Open 2007 is a tossup on the collection in which this poem appears.
"Skunk Hour"