A Critical Analysis Of The Poem Entitled "Tract" By William Carlos Williams
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Tract
By William Carlos Williams
I will teach you my townspeople
how to perform a funeral
for you have it over a troop
of artists-
unless one should scour the world-
you have the ground sense necessary.
See! the hearse leads.
I begin with a design for a hearse.
For Christ's sake not black-
nor w ....
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.... no top at all.
On this the coffin lies
by its own weight.
No wreaths please-
especially no hot house flowers.
Some common memento is better,
something he prized and is known by:
his old clothes-a few books perhaps-
God knows what! You realize
how we are about these things
my townspeople-
something will be found-anything
even flowers if he had come to that.
So much for the hearse.
For heaven's sake though see to the driver!
Take off the silk hat! In fact
that's no place at all for him-
up th ....
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Word count: 1984
Page count: 8 (approximately 250 words per page)
