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- Title
Intimacy and Agency in Robert Lowell's "Day by Day."
- Authors
Sastri, Reena
- Abstract
A poetry criticism is presented for Robert Lowell's collection "Day by Day." It explores the portrayal of intersubjectivity by use of second person address. Accounts of personal suffering and vulnerability are discussed, as is the coincidence of autobiographical themes with formal structures. It notes that all of the poems concern intimacy and disjunction, evoked by images of breaking and mending. The "I" of the poems, it notes, functions as an agent to bridge the gaps.
- Subjects
DAY by Day (Book); LOWELL, Robert, 1917-1977; CRITICISM; INTERSUBJECTIVITY; METAPHOR; THEMES in poetry
- Publication
Contemporary Literature, 2009, Vol 50, Issue 3, p461
- ISSN
0010-7484
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/cli.0.0078