"The Quaker's Graveyard in Nantucket" from Lord Weary's Castle (1946) Robert Well transforms life into art via the medium of myth that is a mode of ordering experience in LWC. It admits a wide range of experiences-religion, history, literature and modern world. Religion (Catholicism) develops into a mode of mythic imagination to organize shared contemporary experiences and the imaginative Catholicism presents effective realities of human behaviors and desire. The poems of LWC provide a potential of Christian in a modern nightmare of war and sin and provoke a theme of exile: the poet is exiled from his spiritual home in the contemporary world and the human race is exiled in the doomed, sinful world round the poet. The apocalyptic Christian myth provides a perspective that makes meaningful the modern experience without violating the poet's and the reader's sense of reality. "The Quaker's Graveyard in Nantucket" is one of the best poems in Lord Weary's Castle to provoke the theme of exile and salvation. "Quaker's Graveyard" contains 7 separate poems in whichRobert Lowell's imagination conflates his literal experience and his actual experiences. The poem is a field of conflict between opposing forces within the poet's psyche and the collective psyche of the civilization.
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Lowell takes the form of elegy that addresses a meditation to the dead sailor via historical and literary menaings:
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Lowell tends to create intension by placing contrast forces of language.
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The poem brings the association with personal experience (elegy for Warren Winslow) and American history by Melville's metaphor:
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The speaker articulates literary experience with religious experience and provides a potential salvation:
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