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Analysis and comments on Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell

Comment 2 of 2, added on July 5th, 2008 at 5:36 AM.

The poet is full of despair of what he sees around his society and brings
forth the meaningless life the people lead.He curses him of being one at
the moment and suddenly finds a ray of hope in his existence on seeing the
mother skunk and its kttens rummaging the garbage for the leftovers for
survival.

rosy davies from India
Comment 1 of 2, added on February 23rd, 2006 at 8:29 PM.

The poet is so much frustrated of the emptiness and futility of the
American civilization that he finds each and every aspect of the society
spiritually failure but the poem moves from the frustration to the
individual revitalization when he observes the skunks living with the
garbages blissfully.

Dibya from Nepal



Information about Skunk Hour

Poet: Robert Lowell
Poem: Skunk Hour
Volume: Selected Poems
Year: 1976
Added: Oct 29 2004
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