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Robert Lowell's father, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr., died in a mental institution in Boston in 1954. He had struggles with mental illness throughout his life and that ultimately led to his institutionalization. This traumatic experience greatly influenced Robert Lowell's writing and fueled his exploration of mental health themes in his poetry.

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