Wild Is the Wind: Poems by Carl Phillips
Published 2018 · 55 pages · 15,125 words · about 1 hour at an average pace
How hard is Wild Is the Wind: Poems to read?
Wild Is the Wind: Poems scores 62 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Precise rather than rare.
- Sentence structure: 72 out of 100
- His syntax is the difficulty — clauses suspended and folded back across lines.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Desire and power treated abstractly.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Compressed.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- A speaker who qualifies every statement he makes.
- Symbolic density: 70 out of 100
- Horses, hunting and weather run through as sustained figures.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Constant self-correction.
- Resolution withholding: 72 out of 100
- Poems close on hesitation rather than statement.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- A sequence with recurring images.
How Wild Is the Wind: Poems is regarded
Wild Is the Wind: Poems holds a literary regard score of 53 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.