Robert Lowell On March 1, 1917, Robert Lowell was born into one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent families. He attended Harvard College for two years before transferring to Kenyon College, where he studied poetry under John Crowe Ransom and received an undergraduate degree in 1940. He took graduate courses at Louisiana State University where he studied with Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. Lowell contributed a lot for American poetry, until his sudden death from a heart attack at the age of 60. Robert Lowell served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1962 until his death in 1977. To Speak of Woe in Marriage has a free verse with simple rhyming couplets structure. In this poem Robert Lowell writes about sex without actually saying the word 'sex'. It is about how a woman is suffering in her marriage due to her husband’s abusive attitude and behavior. It is overall in a feeling of despair and pain. The woman in the poem is afflicted with an
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