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This is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

by Mr. William Carlos Williams
 
 
William Carlos Williams é, a par de e. e. cummings ou de Gertrude Stein um poeta do modernismo. A mestria da métrica e do som, a intelectualização da poesia e o seu ‘concretismo’, fixando-a mais em sentidos que em sentimentos, em coisas mais do que em pulsões interiores e afastando-a da dimensão pessoal ou reflexiva, dá-lhe um gosto muito a meu gosto. Faz da poesia uma coisa mais manipulável, com que se brinca, uma espécie de cosa mentale.


Hei-de voltar a isto.

Comentários

  1. Não sou sensível à maioria da poesia. Não a consigo sentir e dar a atenção que ela se calhar merece. Deve ser um defeito.

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  2. Mas para lá caminho. -_-

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