Life Studies - HSC Chosen Poems
Description
Skunk Hour
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Memories of West Street and Lepke
- Persona reflects on their present situation and sense of "imprisonment" with their home
- As a person in their forties, they feel asi if they have wasted their life: "Ought I to regret my seed time?"
- This causes the persona to reminisce about their time in prison as a conscientous objector
- A number of descriptions follow of prison in-mates with dialogue and references to objects and people
- Lowell finally compares his fate to that of Czar Lepke
Sailing Home from Rapallo
Terminal Days at Beverly Farm
Grandparents
Waking in the Blue
Commander Lowell
Man and Wife
-
Memories of West Street and Lepke
- Persona reflects on their present situation and sense of "imprisonment" with their home
- As a person in their forties, they feel asi if they have wasted their life: "Ought I to regret my seed time?"
- This causes the persona to reminisce about their time in prison as a conscientous objector
- A number of descriptions follow of prison in-mates with dialogue and references to objects and people
- Lowell finally compares his fate to that of Czar Lepke
Sailing Home from Rapallo
Terminal Days at Beverly Farm
Grandparents
Waking in the Blue
Commander Lowell
Man and Wife