[New-Poetry] For the WEPD experiment: Houseman's Poem
Bob Grumman
bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Mon Feb 2 22:18:15 EST 2009
> You could argue that it's a stretch, perhaps, but I don't think it's
> blatantly wrong.
Agreed.
> The poem doesn't have any hard evidence against it.
But it does: And since because the speaker has little time "to look at
things in BLOOM," he is going into the woodlands to see the cherry hung
with snow. If they're literally hung with snow, they won't be in
bloom. To be reminded of blooms is not looking at them.
--Bob
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