impressionistic portrait, related to Monet's windswept figure of the "Woman with a Parasol". It's not "about" the Monet paintings, but the allusion helps us visualise the strange, dissolving quality of the poem's central image. "Everywhere you see her . . ." could signal a love poem, obsessed by a particular woman. Equally, it could be about "Everywoman". Her identity is unstable, because the weather of the receptive imagination constantly reshapes it. Monet himself painted two women with parasols--his wife and, later, his step-daughter. [Mimi] Khalvati's figure, like Monet's, seems at first to be composed of sky and wind.from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Mimi Khalvati
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