Queen-Ann’s-Lace (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Nature, Flowers, Women, Plants
The Poem
Written in nonmetrical verse, “Queen-Ann’s-Lace” is a single-stanza, twenty-one line poem. Its title suggests it is about the common field flower also known as the wild carrot. A wide, white flower about a hand’s width in size, Queen Anne’s lace contains scores of tiny blossoms and, in the center, a dark spot. In I Wanted to Write a Poem (1958), William Carlos Williams said that he used “straight observation…in [his] four poems about flowers, ‘Daisy,’ ‘Primrose,’…‘Queen Ann’s Lace,’ and ‘Great Mullen.’” He “thought of them...
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