OMG this makes me mad. I’m delighted the source for Williams’s Red Wheelbarrow has been putatively found. But this? THIS?
“When we read this poem in an anthology, we tend not to think of the chickens as real chickens, but as platonic chickens, some ideal thing,” William Logan, the scholar who recently discovered Mr. Marshall’s identity, said in an interview.
DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO READ A POEM SIR.
I do not wish to wish to commit violence against any person nor semblance of one. I propose instead we strike the pronoun “we” from the human vocabulary. Then he couldn’t utter such crud.
Oh, read the article (scription or paywall bust needed), see if I’m wrong. Strikes me as one in which every sentence is superficially right and the whole’s deeply benighted.
Then read the poem (free to all the world). Strikes me as one in which each word magnifies its neighbour to infinity.
Platonic chickens! Maybe send us some platonic rain?
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I guess I should not be surprised that Logan and Rod Leith are acting like this is a new discovery. I presented evidence in 2011 that my grandmother was the inspiration for “Nantucket”. It’s
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Looks like your comment got cut off, Beth … repost?
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