My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Lowell
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Memory, Twentieth century, 1920’s, Emotions, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Hodgkin’s disease, Clothing or dress
“My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow” does not begin like an elegy, focusing instead on Lowell's childhood affection for his grandfather Winslow and his distance from his own parents. It begins, “’I won’t go with you. I want to stay with Grandpa!’” Grandfather Winslow's world was one of adventure and freedom. “the decor/ was manly, comfortable,/ overbearing, disproportioned.” At his farm are photographs of silver mines and “pitchers of ice-tea,/ oranges, lemons, mints, and peppermints,/ and the jug of shandygaff.” Most significant is the fact that...
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