White Bound
Posted in cross stitch on 01/20/2010 06:04 pm by adminHow do you interpret the poem The Mind Hesitant written by William Carlos Williams?
Sometimes the river
becomes a river in the mind
or of the mind
or in and of the mind
Its banks snow
the tide falling a dark
rim lies between
the water and the shore
And the mind hesitant
regarding the stream
senses
a likeness which it
will find- a complex
image: something
of white brows
bound by a ribbon
of sooty thought
beyond, yes well beyond
the mobile features
of swiftly
flowing waters, before
the tide will
change
and rise again, maybe
I am no expert on WCW, but what I do know is he is honest and image driven. So What I am saying here is, indeed this river transfers to your mind through sight and lives there. Perhaps, takes on new life there. Better than the original, or darker than the other. Remember his breakthrough piece, The Red Wheelbarrow? It is very honest and just about all image. It says, "So much depend upon a red wheelbarrow, glazed with rain water beside the white chickens." That's it, the whole poem. Sometimes a river is just a river, not a metaphor, the reader supplies the implied allusions.
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