Week 12

Picking from this week's playlist in particular, I would say that the poet who I admire the most is William Carlos Williams. His style is not particularly experimental, but it is also not boring or tired. His language is vivid, his themes interesting and simple, and his tone appealing. "Pastoral" is beautifully written with excellent images, but it has a great turn at the end. I really like closure in poems, call me old fashioned. His closure is definitely sudden and at the close, but it is also not on the nose or too obvious. He still allows your mind to wander.

"Love Song" is a vivid little poem that seems to be hyperbolic at times in tone and uses just wonderful imagery in depicting this sort of odd love poem. I'm not even sure I totally get it, but I like it. I imagine it is about a sexually restless person at sunset wanting to entangle his "limbs" with another's as night quickly approaches? Well, it's lovely and and I feel uncertain as to if I should find it lovely sue to the content. But I like that contrast.

I would like to play around with tone in the way that Williams does. I'm not sure if I can write humorous poetry, but I would like to try. And to do so in a way like Williams, where the language is still beautiful - at times florid, at times simple.