"Waking in the Blue" is a poem by Robert Lowell that was published in his book Life Studies and is a striking, early example of confessional poetry.
Lowell wrote the first draft of the poem at the end of January 1958 while at the McLean Hospital in Belmont near Boston.
The title of that first draft was "To Ann Adden (Written during the first week of my voluntary stay at McLean's Mental Hospital)".
[1] Ann Adden was a "psychiatric fieldworker" whom he had met while he was a patient at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital the previous year.
However, the final draft was 25 lines shorter and in places rhyme and snatches of regular meter were introduced to tighten up the poem.