Poetry Continued

After reading all of these poems I came to the conclusion that three of them tended to lean towards a common theme, which was loneliness, neglect, and isolation. I noted in a previous blog that there was this similarity between “The Great Figure” and “Red Wheel Barrow,” but I also think that this theme exists in the poem “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus.” William Carlos Williams refers to Icarus as “a splash quite unnoticed,” which sort of dehumanizes him and makes him seem insignificant and isolated. Referring to him as a “splash” rather than a boy makes the reader care less about the subject, and therefore make the reader feel more like the farmer in the picture, who also only sees him as a splash. This is much like how the figure 5 in the poem “The Great Figure” goes unnoticed, or “unheeded” as Williams puts it. Calling the figure 5 “unheeded” and depicting it as “rumbling through a dark city” makes it look just as neglected as Icarus was. I think it would be interesting to write my essay about these poems and the neglectful nature of them, because they all seem to be touching on that subject.