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This is just to say (1934) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold 이거 그냥 말해주려고 (1934) -- 윌리엄 칼로스 윌리엄즈 (1883-1963) 아이스박스 속에 있었던 자두를 내가 먹었는데 그거 당신이 아마도 아침으로 먹으려고 넣어 둔 것일 텐데 용서해 줘 자두는 맛있었어 아주 달고 아주 차갑던데 © 서 량 2011.10.21

Riposte (1917) --William Carlos Williams Love is like water or the air my townspeople; it cleanses, and dissipates evil gases. It is like poetry too and for the same reasons. Love is so precious my townspeople that if I were you I would have it under lock and key--- like the air or the Atlantic or like poetry! 반론 --윌리엄 칼로스 윌리엄즈 사랑은 물이나 공기 같습니다 동네사람들이여; 사랑은 씻어내고, 사악한 공기를 없애줍니다. 사랑은 또 같은 이유로 시와도 같..

미국 현대시에 크게 공헌한 의사시인 윌리엄 칼로스 윌리엄스(William Carlos Williams, 1883~1963)의 시 'Love'를 음미한다. 의대를 갓 졸업한 27살 나이로 뉴저지 소도시에서 개업을 시작한 1910년에 쓴 그의 시 일부가 이렇다. Love is twain, it is not single, / Gold and silver mixed in one, / Passion 'tis and pain which m..

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1962) --- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with itself sweating in the sun that melted the wings' wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed th..

The Young Housewife (1916) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) At ten AM the young housewife moves about in negligee behind the wooden walls of her husband's house. I pass solitary in my car. Then again she comes to the curb to call the ice-man, fish-man, and stands shy, uncorseted, tucking in stray ends of hair, and I compare her to a fallen leaf. The noiseless w..

To a poor old woman (1935) --- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out in her hand Comforted a solace of ripe plums seeming to fit the air They taste good to her 불쌍한 늙은 ..