Modern American Poetry
(^212) James E. Miller, Jr. They do not know the words or have not the courage to use them. —girls from families that have decay ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 213 of eternal sleep ... challenging our waking— (P,p. 18) This divorce is a severance from ...
(^214) James E. Miller, Jr. prototype of the American dream. Somewhere, back in the past, in the visionary planning of such as H ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 215 The place sweats of staleness and of rot a back-house stench. a library stench (P,p. 10 ...
(^216) James E. Miller, Jr. me out! (Well, go!) this rhetoric is real! (P,p. l45) Whitman always declared that his rhetoric was ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 217 adjacent house tops to witness the spectacle” (P,p. 203). What gives this passage autho ...
(^218) James E. Miller, Jr. Dreams possess me and the dance of my thoughts involving animals the blameless beasts (P,p. 224) Whi ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 219 Which is to say, though it be poorly said, there is a first wife and a first beauty, co ...
(^220) James E. Miller, Jr. Sees, alive (asleep) —the fall’s roar entering his sleep (to be fulfilled) reborn in his sleep—scatt ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 221 “Beautiful Thing.” But the vagueness perhaps suits the poet’s purposes in appearing rat ...
(^222) James E. Miller, Jr. the riddle of a man and a woman For what is there but love, that stares death in the eye, love, bege ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 223 It was the Emersonian-Whitmanian transcendental tradition to reject books (and the past ...
(^224) James E. Miller, Jr. and the poet adds at the end: “have you read anything that I have written? / It is all for you” (P,p ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 225 nullity and blankness to the apprehendable realities of spring and flowers (“no ideas b ...
(^226) James E. Miller, Jr. which is a reversal of despair. (P,p. 78) The nul, the blank, the descent, confronted in their reali ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 227 Hell’s fire. Fire Sit your horny ass down. What’s your game? Beat you at your own game, ...
(^228) James E. Miller, Jr. of the falls as the river runs to the sea—the “sea of blood”—in the conclusion of Book IV: the nosta ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 229 We shall not get to the bottom: death is a hole in which we are all buried Gentile and ...
(^230) James E. Miller, Jr. readers would conclude with Robert Lowell’s judgment, in proclaiming Williams as “part of the great ...
William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 231 and William Carlos Williams(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1975). This work is mos ...
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