Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
"Lord Weary's Castle" won Lowell the Pulitzer prize in 1947. It sure looks like he was doing something right. (Source.)
Unlike the speaker in the poem (who we see aboard a warship), Lowell refused to serve in the military in 1943, and spent five months in jail and federal prison as a result. (Source.)
Sadly, Lowell suffered several mental breakdowns over the course of his life and was hospitalized on occasion for treatment. (Source.)