Ekphrastic Copresence: “The Hunters in the Snow” as a Style of Poetic Access

Abstract

ABSTRACT:This article departs from J. Hillis Miller’s notion of “copresence” in Williams’s poetry to consider ekphrasis as a specific mode of access to the world, revealing differences between art forms as differences between how and what they make present. It focuses, as a primary example, on Williams’s “The Hunters in the Snow,” from Pictures from Brueghel.