[New-Poetry] For the WEPD experiment: Houseman's Poem

[John Jeffrey]

Right: he has little time to look at things in bloom; therefore he must go out even when they're not in bloom and see the beauty of them when they are hung with snow.  Just the way I've read it for my two score years and ten.

JohnJ





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From: Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 10:18:15 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] For the WEPD experiment: Houseman's Poem



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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