Robert Lowell unites a world event, a personal moment, and elements of religious belief to
             create a realistic theme, granting him the title “Father of Confessional Poetry”. Lowell’s
             family history, his bouts of madness, marital problems, and scandalous opinions all were
             required for his unruly art. Lowell used detail from life to position his readers in psychic
             moments from which truths were spoken. Critics went so far as to describe Lowell as a
             Lowells domestic turmoil and family history is also reflected heavily in his works.
             In the ‘Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket,’ Robert Lowell uses the occasion of his cousins
             early death to write a poem of a lost cousin that was killed aboard his naval ship during
             World War II. Later this poem served as an elegy at his cousins funeral. ‘For the Union
             Dead’ is thought to be a family poem in its sources. Lowell quotes from a letter that
             Charles Russell Lowell, wrote home to his wife, Josephine, about her brothers burial. In
             ‘Life Studies’, Lowell reveals his inner torments as a child. He talks openly about his
             mother’s death and his father’s alcoholism. In one line he compares his father to an out of
             Lowells early poems dealt with the failures in strengths of religious and historical
             tradition. In Lowell’s first collection, Land of Unlikeness, was explaining the immoral
             points of Puritanism. In 1940 he married Jean Stafford, and became a fanatical convert to
             Roman Catholicism. This is partially due the rebellion against his parent’s puritan beliefs.
             Lowell’s first and second books, ‘Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary’s Castle, were
             influenced by his conversion from Puritanism to Catholicism and explored the darkside of
             America’s Puritan legacy. Lowell sets religious concerns as well as raw biographical
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