DDCPoetry

Poem found here:  "April" by William Carlos Williams The poem, in my head, alludes to T.S. Eliot's, "The Wasteland" with the famous line, "April is the cruelest month."  The response though starts with a proposition, "If you had come away with me / into another state / we had been quiet together."  There's interesting techniques used here.  First, the reader doesn't know who this "you" is, and, adding to this ambiguity, the single line of "into another state" could refer to a physical or mental place -- but the end result would've been a "quiet together." But the poem goes into the opposites -- or expectation of opposites with the conjunction of "but" leading turns within the poem through a single word -- conjunction or adverbial phrase..  "But there the sun coming up / out of the nothing beyond the lake was / too low in the sky."  Note this first usage of "too" in the p...

Poem found here:  "Complete Destruction" by William Carlos Williams This is a parody of "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost .  Both poems have a sense of humor about destruction, but this poem is more personal, I suppose.  Well.      It was an Icy day,      We buried the cat.      then took her box      and set it on fire So there's the place of the initial lines of "Fire and Ice" content and structure wise -- discussion about the duality of fire and ice.       Some say the world will end in fire,       Some say in ice.       From what I’ve tasted of desire       I hold with those who favor fire. But what differs is the personal nature of Williams.  The ice is attributed to the day, and the fire is something to cleanse the box; meanwhile, Frost takes more of an ideological stance on destruction. The last four lines of Williams poem does go more ideologic...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams Originally read: September 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: William Carlos Williams Probably one of the most famous and the most analyzed poem from William Carlos Williams.  I'm sure, dear reader (or spambot) you can find better analysis than mine on the subject.  This is just a warning. Every class in where we analyzed this poem, there were always snickers from the audience, "oh, you know what this means."  No, I don't.  "It's about sex."  Great. Where in the poem should be the question:        This is Just to Say       I have eaten       the plums       that were in       the icebox Note the lack of punctuation here and also note how the title bleeds into the body.  The speaker admits on this sort of innocent theft to "the other."  Who, presumably his wife.  And stop...

Original poem reprinted online here:   "Marriage" by William Carlos Williams Originally read: September 14, 2013 More information about the Poet:   William Carlos William I think this poem is set up as either an homage or a critique of Ezra Pound's famous poem "In a Station of the Metro" .  In any case, this short poem works similar with the punctuation meaning more than the poem.      So different, this man      And this woman:      A stream flowing      In a field. Now the first punctuation is the comma which puts the "difference" as the first thing to read forcing a sense of how to read the poem.  Difference. Man and women.  Now the next punctuation is a colon which indicates the previous phrase is defined by the following image. Then the question is who is the stream.  And who is the field?  I think this poem is tongue-in-cheek that way.