Mental Purgatory

Tag: William Carlos Williams

Of Asphodel, That Greeny Sense of Secrecy

by MartinFister on Jan.18, 2009, under Movies, Social

So this post has been on the top of my list three times now, and I’m finally going to post it. I’ll work my way back though into its first motivation.
The reason I’m posting it now is because of an experience I had the other day. I was with some friends, when friend A asked [...]

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The Variable Foot – Speaking as an Art Form

by MartinFister on Dec.14, 2008, under Literature

William Carlos Williams devised his variable foot poetry form in a selfish manner. Basically, he decided to ignore standard meter and used what sounded right to his ear. This works fine in your head, until someone else reads it with a different style and it loses all of its flow and delivery.
Why do I bring [...]

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