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Quot Quot Dried Leaves
4,040 wordsPeter Baker The details of this poem are so unassuming that they may easily be missed. The young woman is not in a negligee, she is " in negligee. " One also must do a sort of double-take to figure out how the speaker could know this if she is behind the walls of a house. Though the standard line on Williams is that he freezes moments of perception (language used to render perceptive instants), this poem, while apparently simple, utilizes a three-part temporal framework. The first stan...
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