Read some representative poetry by W. H. Auden and compare themes and structures used in his poetry with those of “Lost in Translation.” Three poems you might want to look at are “Musée des Beaux Arts,” “Stop All the Clocks. . .”(“Twelve Songs: IX,” sometimes called “Funeral Blues”), and “The Unknown Citizen.”
Some scholars find elements of the confessional, an autobiographical verse form, in Merrill's poetry. Research this school of poetry and Merrill's life and determine whether there is any evidence for this claim.
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