Yes,indeed, Leonard's poem is funny. Though I don't think of it as a parody,
something more convivial, celebratory.
Randolph Healy
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From: Peter Howard <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Pound/Williams query
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Peter
>
> http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
>
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