So much depends upon-Rob Hopkins

William uses this form of unstructured poetry to describe and image and a feeling. Many times when we experience one of our senses (sight, smell, sound, and touch), a feeling from a memory of that sense often accompanies that experience. Everyone has different experiences that relates to each sense, giving each person a different feeling. When I read Williams’ poem I imagine being on a chicken farm. The smell of chicken manure, the ground covered in mud from a recent rain, and the wheel barrow full of chicken feed preparing to be dumped. I believe Williams is trying to describe what the chickens depend upon: feed.

So much depends upon

orange brushstrokes

 

smearing

across blue skies

 

sparkling whitewash waves

crash

 

on golden sandy

beaches

–Robert Hopkins