“Sailing Home from Rapallo”
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“Sailing Home from Rapallo” is a confessional poem by Robert Lowell, included in his influential collection Life Studies, that reflects on his mother’s illness and death during a sea voyage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| “Sailing Home from Rapallo” canonical | 1 |
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
confessional poem
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poem ⓘ |
| appearsInSectionOfCollection | Life Studies second half (confessional family poems) ⓘ |
| author | Robert Lowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collection | Life Studies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationCollection | Life Studies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely studied in modern American poetry criticism ⓘ |
| includedIn | Robert Lowell’s selected and collected editions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Robert Lowell’s family background
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Robert Lowell’s relationship with his mother ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Confessional poetry ⓘ |
| mode | autobiographical ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | the confessional turn in American poetry ⓘ |
| period | mid-20th century American poetry ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Farrar, Straus and Cudahy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Memories of West Street and Lepke
NERFINISHED
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Skunk Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ Waking in the Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Mediterranean Sea
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Rapallo NERFINISHED ⓘ sea voyage ⓘ |
| subject |
death
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family history ⓘ illness ⓘ memory ⓘ mother–son relationship ⓘ mourning ⓘ |
| theme |
autobiographical self-examination
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confrontation with mortality ⓘ guilt and ambivalence toward parents ⓘ |
| tone |
elegiac
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introspective ⓘ |
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