I'd always assumed the Williams was to his wife. Tom Leonard also has a
very funny parody.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mark Weiss wrote...
>The Williams is addressed to his wife. Kenneh Koch wrote a very funny parody.
>
>At 09:36 AM 7/10/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>>I had was on the phone last night, and +inter alia+, something strange
>>emerged with regard to interpretations of Williams' "This is Just to Say"
>>and Pound's "In a Station of the Metro".
>>
>>I'd always (and it never occured to me there was any other way of reading)
>>taken the Williams poem as describing a guest's note of apology to a host,
>>and the "petals" of Pound's Metro as petals blown off a blossom and
>>sticking to a black branch.
>>
>>My interlocutor (equally unquestioningly) had taken the Williams poem as a
>>husband's aplogy to his wife, and the petals in Metro as flowers blooming
>>on a branch.
>>
>>Any comments (either personal, or in reference to published criticism of
>>these two poems) would be appreciated.
>>
>>Robin Hamilton
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Peter
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