Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme--
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?
I hear the noise of my own voice:
Robert Lowell was influenced by the free verse style that Beat poets like Ginsberg used. He believed a mixture of metered verse and free verse was best– a technique he utilised in his ground-breaking collection,  Life Studies.
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