Poetry Sunday: Spring and All: III [The farmer in deep thought]
My father was a farmer. This poem makes me think of him. How often I have seen him pacing his fields - "the artist figure of the farmer" - in early spring as, in his mind, he is composing and he sees the fields already planted...
Spring and All: III [The farmer in deep thought]
BY William Carlos Williams
The farmer in deep thought
is pacing through the rain
among his blank fields, with
hands in pockets,
in his head
the harvest already planted.
A cold wind ruffles the water
among the browned weeds.
On all sides
the world rolls coldly away :
black orchards
darkened by the March clouds —
leaving room for thought.
Down past the brushwood
bristling by
the rainsluiced wagonroad
looms the artist figure of
the farmer — composing
— antagonist.
Lovely poem! It really does capture the moment.
ReplyDeleteI like the image of the farmer as artist, planning and foreseeing the seasons.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely poem. Williams sure knew how to paint pictures with his words.
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