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By: Brian Croxall

Brian Croxall — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:02:12 +0000

I’m curious, Kate, if a child-like approach (which Miller espouses in one way) has helped you to read these poems? It’s certainly an appropriate approach to reading something like Williams’s poem. I like both of them because they are especially easy to read for plot: no complicated language, not especially long, and nothing that is intentionally obscure…except for that matter of the wheelbarrow. This is something we definitely want to think about further.

By: enewlan

enewlan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:02:22 +0000

I had the same confusion about the hunters at first but when I re-read the poem I got the feeling that the speaker seemed annoyed at the hunters because they destroy the wall and then he has to fix it. He seems to think poorly of them because they destroy the wall simply to please themselves by finding a single rabbit, which is selfish and inefficient. Perhaps he mentions it in passing or maybe he dislikes the hunters destroying a boundary he so carefully set up?
I could be wrong though!