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".
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>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.
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>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.
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>Any comments (either personal, or in reference to published criticism of
>these two poems) would be appreciated.
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>Robin Hamilton
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