The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

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The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket is a major poem by Robert Lowell that meditates on death, guilt, and the sea through dense, allusive, and religiously charged imagery.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poem
alludesTo Christian theology
Moby-Dick
Religious Society of Friends
surface form: Quakerism

Bible
surface form: the Bible
author Robert Lowell
containsImageryOf angels
graves
shipwrecks
storms
The Last Judgment
surface form: the Last Judgment

whales
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresConcept collective guilt
divine judgment
human sin
personal responsibility
form free verse
genre elegy
lyric poetry
hasReputation major poem by Robert Lowell
hasTone meditative
religious
tragic
language English
literaryMovement Confessional poetry
literaryPeriod 20th-century American poetry
meter irregular
partOf Robert Lowell's early work
setting Nantucket
sea
style dense imagery
highly allusive
symbolic
subjectOf academic study
literary criticism
theme American history
death
guilt
judgment
religious imagery
sacrifice
the sea
war

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Robert Lowell notableWork The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Lord Weary’s Castle hasPart The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
this entity surface form: “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket”