Winter Landscape
By John Berryman
Poem
Both this poem and Williams, The Hunter In The Snow, deal
with the same painting but there’s a notable difference in the way the poems
capture the details within the image. While each poems’ contents describe the
subjects and what’s going on within the Brueghel painting the varying degree of
detail they go into is noticeable. Berryman’s winter poem is more in depth and
puts more meaning to each aspect of the painting’s many subjects and little
details. The imagery I see when I read Berryman’s poem is easier to picture and
I feel more connected I guess to the painting than with William’s poem. I also
like how Berryman’s poem feels more complete. With William’s poem it feels like
he may have left out something about the painting that the viewer may have seen
but it wasn’t in the poem or maybe there was an important detail he skated
over.
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