Williams is devoted to the exploration of poetic form throughout his life,and especially as he grows older,he attempts to fuse the design of the painting and of the poem as well as fusing the poetry and painting in his ekphrastic poems.“The Parable of the Blind”,the ninth poem in the Brueghel sequence Pictures from Brueghel in his late years,is the paradigmatic case of the fusion of the design in the painting and the design in his poems.Exploring the form and the design of words,sentences and stanzas in the poem,Williams attempts to imitate t...
