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Volume : V, Issue : IV, May - 2015 THE INMOST WORLD OF SELF: A STUDY OF ROBERT LOWELL’S “SKUNK HOUR” Neelam, None DOI : 10.9780/22307850, By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The early twentieth century America presents a picture of poet activity directed towards the achievement of a poetic utterance that can make it felt without having recourse to mere stylistic devices. Among those participating in it, Robert Lowell stands out by virtue of his preoccupation with the aesthetic and philosophical problems such as those of moral ambiguity and existential anguish. As a history-conscious American as evidenced by his tendency to project his family or personal history into public history, Lowell shows a sharp awareness of the disjunction in man’s consciousness traceable to the tension between the literal and the literary in so far as they are concerned with reality. His distinctiveness lies in his being able to function as a poetic conscience though tortured by an imagination that has to contend with unprecedented aspects of human history as an age marked by loss of faith, man’s acquisition of weapons capable of annihilating the entire human race, gradual deterioration of traditional, moral and ethical values, and a view of cosmos as a meaningful inanity. Keywords : Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'.
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