I have recently learned two important things about William Carlos Williams:
1) he was half Puerto Rican, a biographical fact that is mysteriously omitted from most summaries of his life...
2) my well-read husband wasn't familiar with him, which led me to the frightful conclusion that many others also might not be!
so here are my favorites:
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
==========================
This is just to say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
sometimes sweet. sometimes sour.
6 comments:
HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW ABOUT THE RED WHEELBARROW ON WHICH SO MUCH DEPENDS???!? Oh, I am much distressed.
Oh, I love the "Red Wheelbarrow" poem! I didn't realize that was the dude who wrote it.
My favorite part is the chickens.
I'm not well-read. Well-skimmed, maybe.
whatever. one of the first things that impressed me about darren was all the books in his apartment. and, unlike me, he had actually READ all his books!!!
there is no poem i love more than "this is just to say". i've bought enitre literature textbooks before because they contained that one poem. "the red wheel barrow" is also very good.
i love teaching the red wheelbarrow to bewildered high school students!
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