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Robert Lowell's poetry reveals a tendency in the poet to rectify things through words while also indicating the counterproductive impacts of obsessive revisions. A study of the stages involved in the composition of the poems from trial lines to the published versions gives reason both to accept and to reject the notion that Lowell's rewriting was a means of rectification. Poems discussed include 'At the Altar,' 'The Old Flame' and 'Memorial Day.'

The complex poetry of Geoffrey Hill sometimes provoked hostile criticism and rhetoric from readers, who misread his ironically prophetic stance. Hill believed that the poets should be truthful and the subject of his poetry was political upheaval, violence, the suffering of others, and various matters of intense ethical gravity.

An essay is presented on the literary style of writer Stevie Smith with specific reference to her debut book "Novel on Yellow Paper." It states that Stevie greets her readers in the subtitle to the book which shows the writer starting as she means to go on. It is opined that with this blunt injunction, Smith puts her readers on their guard, at once drawing them in and holding them at a wary distance.

The author discusses Robert Lowell's odd aspects in poetics. He states that his poems repeatedly yearned towards non-existence. He mentions that Lowell perpetually kept his ocular procedures under review in his poems and in his other works. His works included hyper-visualizing eye of the poet-perceiver repeatedly encountering the promise of his own extinction staring back at it through the inoperative eyes of the deceased.