"Dunbarton" by Robert Lowell is one of the poems from his "Life Studies" book. It's a short poem of only two pages but it has a great deep meaning. It talks about Robert's relationship with his grandfather. In this essay I will analyze this piece in detail and talk about the author's connection with his grandfather.

Robert Lowell prefers the use of free verse for his poems. He doesn't use specific style for this piece; it is more free styled. He uses poetic language but there is no metered rhythm in the poem. Lowell even said once in an interview: "Prose is in many ways better off than poetry...I thought poetry was getting increasingly stifling. I couldn't get my experiences into tight metrical forms" (J. Myers and D. Wojahn, p. 154). He was also the first poet who wrote about his family to tell the truth about them...