ENGL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Free Verse, Imagism, William Carlos Williams
12 Jan 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lived in isolation, small everyday things in poetry. Seemed to be unfinished, but published in a collection with corrections. Moment of death and experience of death. King moment when god"s presence is known, passing from life to death. Signed away/what portions of me be/assignable : implies that there is a portion of her that is not concrete, not material. She cannot assign her soul will not go to eyes . Trivial (fly) in contact with significant moment (last breaths) Fly becomes signal of becoming of death, close to her body as she is passing. Death extremely ordinary process, equivalent to fly buzzing, we assume death has grand meaning but happens all the time and can be compared to trivial moments. Windows reference to her eyes, windows failed could no longer see, last line. Fly buzzing against window, try to get out. Soul tries to get out (blue buzz soul)
