sophia_sol | What, more recs, so soon?

I have a thing about William Carlos Williams. That is to say, I have an issue with him and his poems. So much so that I, um, have one of them memorized. In my defense it's really short and I didn't mean to? *headdesk*

So yeah.

"So much depends upon the red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens." Whatever, William Squared.

As a result I have been working on a collection of fannish poetry that has been written as a pastiche of or reaction to him, usually of the one about the plums. They are AWESOME. And here they are, as recs. If you know of any others, PLEASE do share! They make me strangely joyful, despite my antipathy towards William Carlos Williams himself.

This Is Just To Say, by

toft. A Mythbusters version!
(ETA: And in the comments of the LJ version of Toft's, as a sort of sequel, a Mythbusters version of the wheelbarrow poem too, by

shimere277!)

FORGIVE ME, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by

asimaiyat. A series of White Collar versions, that together form a fic!

An experiment in translation, by

skalja. A lolcat translation!

With All Apologies To William Carlos Williams, by

lannamichaels. A fandom version! Of both the plum poem and the wheelbarrow poem!

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Look at you, being all investigative!

Haha, I like your division: some of them are imagist, some of them are decent XD But I'm sure Williams would be glad you do not dislike his work as a whole :o)

(Hee, poetry interpretation can be sort of... strange.)

I'm still not inclined to do Williams any favours, mind. After all, he did LIKE imagism. :P

(this is why I do not do poetry interpretation! I just read poetry and admire it or not. Although from what I hear, TS Eliot for example is a dude who wrote poetry that improves upon studying it, because then your attention is drawn to the very deliberate allusions he was making that I don't catch on to. And TS Eliot is a poet I'd like to be able to better appreciate. I quite like his poem about the magi.)

Yes, that is my understanding of Eliot as well. He was very much grounded in a Classical education, and I believe that influenced him a great deal. It's pretty common for Roman literature to require lots of background knowledge as well, so I suppose I'm more forgiving of the trend.

I didn't know that poem (well, I hardly know any Eliot). It was very stunning!

Yeah, some of my friends studied Eliot in high school English, so I heard a bit about him from them, but I never did myself so I didn't get the chance to really dig into his poems.

His Magi poem is really the only one of his that I'm very familiar with, but I love it! It's on my list of poems-to-memorize-at-some-point. I'm glad I could introduce you to it.

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