Showing posts with label 20th century literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 20th century literature. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

The stupidity of man

A friend has leant me her book of William Carlos Williams' Selected Poems, which I am reading in fits and starts. An unexpected pleasure - given The Red Wheelbarrow.

Here is the first verse of his poem These:

These

are the desolate, dark weeks
when nature in its barrenness
equals the stupidity of man.