The Liquifaction of Her Clothes - Robert Herrick
Monday, January 09, 2017
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| Caitlin Legault |
In my first
year of university at the University of the Americas in Mexico City in 1963 I
took English Literature with a professor (I have long forgotten his name) who
looked like Robert Frost with glasses. He was a personal friend of Frost, and knew
Faulkner and Steinbeck well. He would drone on and on about these men and many
of us thought he was a bore. I sat in the back row not understanding that in
many ways this man set me up to appreciate literature. As I look at the text
book now I am amazed at how much I underlined and of the notes I wrote in so
many pages. How was I to know then that I was getting a lifelong education from
the man?
When I
scanned this Fuji b+w Instant peel of Caitlin Legault today, I wondered what I could
possibly find in my Theme and Form. I found this by a poet more famous for
another poem, this one. What I noticed and seems to go well with my compound
image is
Robert
Herrick – Upon Julia’s Clothes
Whenas
in silks my Julia goes,
Then,
then (me thinks) how sweetly flows
The liquefaction
of her clothes.
Next,
when I cast mine eyes and see
That
brave vibration, each way free,
O how
that glittering taketh me!
