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Frustration’s Armored Aroma by Robert Lowell and The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop are two closely related poems. Both share the theme of an animal carrying with it natural defenses, and the image of an isolated spectator. However, there is one important ....

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.... (Lowell 11) being watched. Even if the occupants of those cars knew they were being observed, chances are they would not associate themselves with the speaker. In addition, Robert Lowell portrays his character as something akin to a stalker, illustrated in the following excerpt. One dark night, my Tudor Ford climbed the hill’s skull; I watched for love-cars. (Lowell 25-27) Why would anyone be out alone, searching for lovers who do not desire intrusion? The speaker answers this question in the second half of the stanza. Lights turned down, they lay together, hull to hull, where the graveyard shelves on th ....