Just Another Day?
In a station
ever
cold and hard
I wait for
the train
when she suddenly
appears
light in dark
I’m spellbound
bright flecks of color
so sweet
such beauty
Rather than making up my topic for the parody of Williams’ mundane poem, I thought I would take the topic from Pound’s “A Station of the Metro” and incorporate it into the form of Williams’ poem. Pound’s poem is definitely mundane in setting and although the tone is more intense and emotional then Williams’, I thought it would be fun putting the two together. I have taken my interpretation of Pound’s poem and made that the content of my poem while I have taken the form of Williams’ poem and applied that to the content. The stanzas, punctuation/capitalization, and number of syllables in all of the lines and title are the same as those in Williams’.
In Williams’ poem, “This is Just to Say”, the tone is very light and insincere. It wouldn’t have worked well to take the content from Pound’s poem and make it very light and conversational. Although Pound’s poem was very mundane in setting and characters, it was full of emotion and expression. I tried to keep that emotion, using Williams’ form. My parody was meant as a blend of both authors, definitely not mocking.
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I really like how you used the form of 4 lines and 3 stanzas, but brought something else to the table. I like how you didn't make your poem an apology, you made it something else.
You did a really good job incorporating the two poems. You kept the form of William's poem yet you brought the ton, emotion, and setting of Pound's. In your parody you were able to bring forth a lot of emotion and feeling in just the twelve lines.
I like how you took something really simply from Pound's poem and expanded on it in your parody instead of taking something bigger and condensing it down into the small form.
I definitely enjoy the way you took this assignment and you tackled it a different way. Pound’s “A Station of the Metro” really needed a complement and I think your poem completes it. It definitely follows Wiliams' form. I do think that "A Station of the Metro" really could of been a little more complex because I do believe that a train station has something to tell. If a metro station will talk it will have so many stories. When I lived in Los Angeles, I would ride the bus very often before I started driving and I will find the weirdest people in the metro. I have tons of stories some are scary but most of them are funny!!Great choice of poems!
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