This horrible but superb painting <br />the parable of the blind <br />without a red <br /> <br />in the composition shows a group <br />of beggars leading <br />each other diagonally downward <br /> <br />across the canvas <br />from one side <br />to stumble finally into a bog <br /> <br />where the picture <br />and the composition ends back <br />of which no seeing man <br /> <br />is represented the unshaven <br />features of the des- <br />titute with their few <br /> <br />pitiful possessions a basin <br />to wash in a peasant <br />cottage is seen and a church spire <br /> <br />the faces are raised <br />as toward the light <br />there is no detail extraneous <br /> <br />to the composition one <br />follows the others stick in <br />hand triumphant to disaster<br /><br />William Carlos Williams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-parable-of-the-blind/
