"The Third Person Possessed Me": Robert Lowell's Monologues.

This article offers poetry criticism of several works by American poet Robert Lowell, including the books "Life Studies" and "The Mills of the Kavanaughs." The author addresses the attention to dramatic monologues in these works, focusing on the structure and use of confession in poems such as "Man and Wife," "To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage," and "The Mills of the Kavanaughs."