Haymaking
Haymaking - meaning Summary
Art Rooted in Everyday Life
Williams presents a rural figure whose imaginative life quietly asserts an appetite for art, yet remains inseparable from farming. The poem contrasts grand artistic ideals with the persistent reality of a wheat field, harvest work, gleaners and magpies. The man’s mind and ‘‘covert assertions for art’’ coexist with embodied labor—scythes, tumbling wheat, patient horses—suggesting that creativity and everyday toil are intertwined rather than oppositional.
Read Complete AnalysesThe living quality of the man’s mind stands out and its covert assertions for art, art, art! painting that the Renaissance tried to absorb but it remained a wheat field over which the wind played men with scythes tumbling the wheat in rows the gleaners already busy it was his own—- magpies the patient horses no one could take that from him
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