Dial 69 Blizzard Snow example essay topic

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Additional Poems By William Carlos Williams Essay, Additional Poems By William Carlos Williams Transitional First he said: It is the woman in us That makes us write– Let us acknowledge it– Men would be silent. We are not men Therefore we can speak And be conscious (of the two sides) Unbent by the sensual As befits accuracy. I then said: Dare you make this Your propaganda? And he answered: Am I not I– here? (from The Tempers, 1913) from The Dial, August 1920 To Waken an Old Lady Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.

Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind – But what? On harsh weeds talks the flock has rested – the snow is covered with broken see husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty from The Dial 69 (p. 163) The Desolate Field Vast and grey, the sky is a simulacrum to all but him whose days are vast and grey and – In the tall, dried grasses a goat stirs with nozzle searching the ground. My head is in the air but who am I... ?

– and my heart stops amazed at the thought of love vast and grey yearning silently over me. from The Dial 69 (p. 164) Blizzard Snow falls: years of anger following hours that float idly down – the blizzard drifts its weight deeper and deeper for three days or sixty years, eh? Then the sun! a clutter of yellow and blue flakes – Hairy looking trees stand out in long alleys over a wild solitude. The man turns and there – his solitary track stretched out upon the world. from The Dial 69 (p. 164).