Parodies of Yeats’s “Second Coming” and Williams’s “This Is Just to Say” provides us with a little midweek levity.
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An Optimist Revises Yeats’s “Second Coming”
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ICE and W.C. Williams’s Ice Box Theft
An Atlantic article applies Williams’s famous plum poet to the “Sandwich Guy” arrested by ICE for “hurling a hoagie.” But the poem applies more to the agents.
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The Trump Who Had No Clothes
Andersen’s “Emperor’s New Clothes” perfectly captures today’s GOP.
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Forgive Me for Eating Your Plums
In my experience, no two people respond to William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just to Say” in the same way. More than most short poems, it seems to function as a Rorschach test, with reactions telling us more about the reader than the poem itself.
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