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:
The painter's vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
Robert Lowell’s most famous poems (e.g. “Skunk Hour” and others from  Life Studies ) tend to be reflections of his real, tumultuous life. 
 He says he wants to create work from the imagination, but the question mark (even though it comes at the end of a larger question) seems to cast some doubt on that desire.
Epilogue