This poet concludes "We are all old-timers / each of us holds a locked razor" in "Waking in the Blue". Another poem ends with the famous line "The Lor
This poet concludes "We are all old-timers / each of us holds a locked razor" in "Waking in the Blue". Another poem ends with the famous line "The Lord survives the rainbow of His will". The speaker of one poem discusses a hermit "thirsting for / the hierarchic privacy / of Queen Victoria's century" and he later encounters a figure that "jabs her wedge-head in a cup / of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail / and will not scare." This poet included "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" in his collection Lord Weary's Castle and wrote a poem that begins, "The old South Boston Aquarium stands / in a Sahara of snow now," which is a meditation on St. Gaudens' statue of Colonel Shaw. For 10 points, name this Confessional poet who wrote "Skunk Hour" and "For the Union Dead."
This poet concludes "We are all old-timers / each of us holds a locked razor" in "Waking in the Blue".
Robert Lowell