Williams and Loy Reviews

We have come to the near end of studying some very complex poetry. Looking back towards the beginning of the semester while beginning to prepare for the final has made me realize that I have learned more than I had originally thought.
Williams in comparison with the other poets studied in this class in not as unapproachable as I had first thought. Perhpas because next to the other poets, his word is simpler in a sense. There is a basis of truth here that is elemented in simple things like Spring and Wind. Williams seems to draw heavily on nature as a tool of inspiration. Also, as a doctor, his work seems very physical, substansial. It is very easy now to picture the images he creates. One does not need a dictionary in order to understand his work. A reader needs only patience and a degree of feeling because his work envokes reactions on the emotional rather than the intellectual level. Reading a Williams poem often gives me a sense of nostalgia, empathy.

Loy remains my favorite poet in the class. Her work is cut from a very different cloth than that of Williams. Here we see one who likes to make up words, use language on a high level of intellectual force. Her language is not as soft as Williams. It cuts and makes one question meaning and direction. She seems to use the poetic line haphazardly, but under study, the enjambments and spacial "defects" are purposeful, perhaps to slow the reader down or to draw out important elements within her poetry. The charged language that is seen in much of her work threatens (in that time period) and demands attentions. She seems the more political writer when compared to Williams, though not quite as political as Zukofsky. The poems of Loy are very visual, showing poetry artistic in sight as well as sound.