A_Design_For_America

A Design For America A Design for America In an unprecedented move, four of America’s finest architects, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams have entered in a competition to design the ultimate American home. After carefully planning and calculating, redesigning and drafting, the architects have each settled on one design each to present to the country for approval. Walt Whitman’s design consisted of a sprawling ranch house on 20 acres of woodlands and streams. “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,/I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” Indeed the tangle of trees, and the open hills and plains were not a “backyard” but became necessary to the ranch. Seeing the design for the land I myself felt impelled to explore it and exercise some testosterone. At first glance it seemed like a typical western style ranch, but upon entering the home a different scene was apparent. Even though many of the rooms in this spacious house had high ceilings and wide entrances, there were many dark and smoky rooms. These murky rooms all were complete with a furnished bar and stools. What was surprising was that a few design, house, yard, rooms, small, one, american, williams, home, yet, walls, typical, stevens, shows, ranch, each, dark, america, william, whitman, white, walt, wallace, very, various, upon, two, tiny, through, though, spacious, solitude, sexual, setting, seemed