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02-18-2015, 04:11 AM
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I had thought the stanzas looked like chickens with their necks outstretched, fleeing a fox. But this is what happens with the great artists: their work operates on multiple levels.
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02-18-2015, 05:25 AM
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Oh, yes! That would explain why they're all headed in the same direction.
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02-18-2015, 07:49 AM
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It would be nice to imagine how Stevens would have done it. And how Williams would have handled "The Emperor of Ice Cream"...
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02-18-2015, 09:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ross hamilton hill
Not sure how I feel about it, grows on you in an annoying way.
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Yes. Appreciation & sometimes annoyance.
Then there's This is Just to Say. I think more than one poet has replied to the poem. Erica-Lynn Gambino here, just below the Williams's original, does a good job.
— Woody
Last edited by Woody Long; 02-18-2015 at 11:08 AM.
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02-18-2015, 11:37 AM
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Munching
W C Williams
To a Poor Old Woman
munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand
They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her
You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand
Comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her
To a Poor Old Yeoman
sucking a thumb in
the field a filthy one
of them in his mouth
It tastes foul to him
It tastes foul
to him. It tastes
foul to him
You can see it by
the way he gives himself
to the filthy nail
still dark with dirt
Uncomforted
a cursing of raw thumbs
seeming to fill the field
It tastes foul to him
After WC Williams
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02-18-2015, 12:01 PM
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Ralph —
I laughed several times as I got to the end of Yeoman....
Yes! We get the point Bill Williams. Now go away!
But then I repent & go back for more.
— Woody
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02-18-2015, 12:16 PM
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AZ:
Along with "Prufrock", "Tyger", and "Sonnet (1979)", this poem/question often comes up in rudimentary scansion lessons, especially in defining meter as a quantification (in this case, of stresses). As presented, it is accentual heterometer: two accented syllables in the odd numbered lines, one in the even numbered ones. Remove (i.e. "decurginate") the intraphrasal linebreaks in each stanza and you have simple accentual trimeter.
HTH
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02-18-2015, 01:13 PM
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You should go back for more, Woody.
I would think, as a poet, Williams has much to teach you.
Nemo
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02-18-2015, 03:15 PM
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There's a wonderful parody of this poem, and I only with I could remember the author's name.
So much depends upon
A yellow goldfish
Washed down with
Bowl water
Inside the white
Kitten
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02-18-2015, 03:43 PM
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Gail,
The Yellow Goldfish
so much depends
upon
a yellow gold
fish
washed down with bowl
water
inside the white
kitten
Henry Beard 1945
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