Skunk Hour

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speaker.
In addition, Robert Lowell portrays his character as something akin to a stalker, illustrated in the following excerpt.
One dark night,
my Tudor Ford climbed the hill’s skull;
I watched for love-cars.
(Lowell 25-27)


Why would anyone be out alone, searching for lovers who do not desire intrusion? The
speaker answers this question in the second half of the stanza.

Lights turned down,
they lay together, hull to hull,
where the graveyard shelves on the town…
My mind’s not right.
(Lowell 27-30)

Here, the speaker admits his actions are wrong. Later in this paper, the fact that the speaker in Skunk Hour is lonely will become an important contrast to the character in The Armadillo.
At the end of the poem, Lowell contrasts as well as likens the character to the nocturnal skunk.

Nobody’s here –

only skunks, that search
in the moonlight for a bite to eat
(Lowell 36-38)

Like the skunks of the ...

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