Ferlinghetti opens his poem with a reference to the women with large hats in Promenade on the Beach (1907), a painting by Joaquin Sorolla. Another poem of special interest in Pictures of the Gone World is “8,” also known as “Sorolla’s Women in Their Picture Hats.” The poem reveals Ferlinghetti’s frequently used technique of referring to famous works of visual art to create a springboard for his own imaginative flight. Among the most familiar poems in Pictures of the Gone World are “Away above a Harborful,” “The World Is a Beautiful Place,” and “Reading Yeats.” Because these poems are included in A Coney Island of the Mind, discussion of these poems is found in the entry for A Coney Island of the Mind. Second, the title refers to the “Gone World,” invoking the hip idiom and its sense of “gone,” which can connote a positive sort of craziness but can also suggest a desperate emptiness. In that sense, the poems are like paintings or photographs-in the tradition of the imagists, the poems are meant to convey a strong visual impression. First, the poems are meant to be pictures. The title of the collection is apparently based on two key ideas.
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