
Stevie Smith and William Carlos Williams
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Loneliest Man in the World
William Carlos Williams' poem celebrates his loneliness. He says in the last couple of lines, who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household? So it is a man singing about his own loneliness. We know he's not alone because we know he's got a wife and a kid. And let's not forget, Kathleen owes it also in the house.
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