{"id":1011,"date":"2016-01-21T20:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2016-01-21T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:39:04","slug":"play-louder-january-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Play Louder, January Wind!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"snowywindow\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 January<\/strong><\/p>\n

by William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n

Again I reply to the triple winds<\/p>\n

running chromatic fifths of derision<\/p>\n

outside my window:<\/p>\n

Play louder.<\/p>\n

You will not succeed. I am<\/p>\n

bound more to my sentences<\/p>\n

the more you batter at me<\/p>\n

to follow you.<\/p>\n

And the wind,<\/p>\n

as before, fingers perfectly<\/p>\n

its derisive music.<\/p>\n

Rather than a chilly outing, this poem by William Carlos Williams is amped up and operatic in the battle between nature and poet. From the window of his study, the poet hears the wind as music, trying to distract him from his own artistic work. Bring it on! Play louder! he shouts. He loves it. It’s force against force, creative wills going at each other nose.<\/p>\n

In his own whipped-up excitement, the little poet at the window thinks he can withstand the passion, and stick to ordering and reordering his words. But the ferocious, indifferent wind seems to win.<\/p>\n

Or does it? \u00a0In the end, the poet has triumphed with a poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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