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Originally posted by Bosse de NageLOL! I know, but I don't think we have any "pure" young slatterns anymore. Or "pure" mountan folk from Kentucky either. "Pure young slatterns" makes one wonder what kind of company Williams Carlos Williams was keeping in those days. No doubt he chalked the slatterns up to poetic research.
Mountain folk from Kentucky? Young slatterns?
One of my favorite poems though. Glad to see it mentioned in the forum.
Seriously though, I think the advent of radio, and later TV, probably was the demise of pure mountain folk. I understand that isn't exactly Williams' point, but I think the intense isolation no longer exists that existed yet in some places before WWII.
Originally posted by DelmerMaize grown in the US by Americans (or Amerinds if you want to be anal) and then sold by the same is a purely American product.
Does the USA have any pure products anymore? Or any purely American products?
Perhaps we had them in 1923 when WCW penned the lines. I doubt the lines are true today.
Originally posted by DelmerI wonder exactly what he meant by "pure". Certainly not ethnically homogenous--WCW was a doctor who had extensive contact with immigrants (a special soft spot for Polish mothers).
LOL! I know, but I don't think we have any "pure" young slatterns anymore. Or "pure" mountan folk from Kentucky either.
Originally posted by Bosse de Nagehttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/elsie.htm
I wonder exactly what he meant by "pure". Certainly not ethnically homogenous--WCW was a doctor who had extensive contact with immigrants (a special soft spot for Polish mothers).