I'm in-between the two of you: stuck petals and apologetic husband. No idea
how you could prove it either way, though.
Best wishes
Matthew
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From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 July 2000 20:27
Subject: Pound/Williams query
>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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