Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOREIGN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Artsybashev is a russian Last Line: Hardly of great moment. Subject(s): Russia | ||||||||
Artsybashev is a Russian. I am an American. Let us wonder, my townspeople, if Artsybashev tends his own fires as I do, gets himself cursed for the baby's failure to thrive, loosens windows for the woman who cleans his parlor -- or has he neat servants and a quiet library, an intellectual wife perhaps and no children, -- an apartment somewhere in a back street or lives alone or with his mother or sister -- I wonder, my townspeople, if Artsybashev looks upon himself the more concernedly or succeeds any better than I in laying the world. I wonder which is the bigger fool in his own mind. These are shining topics my townspeople but -- hardly of great moment. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259 by LYN HEJINIAN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905) by CHARLES REZNIKOFF INSCRIPTIONS: 1944-1956, SELECTION by CHARLES REZNIKOFF TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH by CARL SANDBURG READING THE RUSSIANS by RUTH STONE THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969 by VIRGIL SUAREZ A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON A CELEBRATION by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |
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