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Date:
12/23/2022 10:42:56 AM
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RE: Having missed St. Lucy's Day
WCW is interesting in much the same way as Archibald MacLeish. They did that Modernist thing of extruding everything from the poem except the poem itself (only Williams would do it by using a subject outside the poem, like a red wheelbarrow -- sort of like how Guy de Maupassant and Anton Chekhov would spin short fiction out of something insignificant -- a ball of fat or a lapdog, e.g.).
Compare W.H. Auden's
Musée des Beaux Arts
and Williams'
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
. I love the whole Modernist era for this kind of stylistic revisionism and experimentation. (FWIW: I like Auden's poem better than Williams'.) I also like to buy bags of Hostess little chocolate donuts and eat them in secret.
