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Skunk Hour
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Frustration’s Armored Aroma
by Robert Lowell and The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop are two closely related poems. Both share the theme of an animal carrying with it natural defenses, and the image of an isolated spectator. However, there is one important contrast between these poems: The ....
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My mind’s not right.
(Lowell 27-30)
Here, the speaker admits his actions are wrong. Later in this paper, the fact that the speaker in Skunk Hour is lonely will become an important contrast to the character in The Armadillo.
At the end of the poem, Lowell contrasts as well as likens the character to the nocturnal skunk.
Nobody’s here –
only skunks, that search
in the moonlight for a bite to eat
(Lowell 36-38)
Like the skunks of the .... |
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