Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREAT MULLEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One leaves his leaves at home Last Line: And you are high, grey and straight. Ha! Subject(s): Adultery; Deception | ||||||||
One leaves his leaves at home being a mullen and sends up a lighthouse to peer from: I will have my way, yellow -- A mast with a lantern, ten fifty, a hundred, smaller and smaller as they grow more -- Liar, liar, liar! You come from her! I can smell djer-kiss on your clothes. Ha! you come to me, you -- I am a point of dew on a grass-stem. Why are you sending heat down on me from your lantern? -- You are cowdung, a dead stick with the bark off. She is squirting on us both. She has had her hand on you! -- well? -- She has defiled ME. -- Your leaves are dull, thick and hairy. -- Every hair on my body will hold you off from me. You are a dungcake, birdlime on a fencerail. -- I love you, straight, yellow finger of God pointing to -- her! Liar, broken weed, dungcake, you have -- I am a cricket waving his antennae and you are high, grey and straight. Ha! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEAUTY SHOPPE by MARILYN NELSON A CERTAIN LADY by DOROTHY PARKER SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA) by ANNE WALDMAN AN INSINCERE WISH ADDRESSED TO A BEGGAR by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE A BALLAD OF HELL by JOHN DAVIDSON PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S ODE [THAT SHE SANG IN HER ARBOR] by ROBERT GREENE A CELEBRATION by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |
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