Poetic overlapping in As I Lay Dying

I am new to this group. Hello.

I read a comment about Faulkner being more like poetry than
prose sometimes. "As I Lay Dying" seems to me to move forward through poetic overlapping.
A detail about a character or a particular phrase is brought up, and then in the next chapter
comes up again, like Cash saying, "It feels fine, I'm obliged to you" after they pour water
on his cast. The repetition of these things is what links a group of, say, three to six chapters.
I especially like the way the final section is structured, with Darl, Vardaman, Cash, Dewey
Dell, and MacGowan sketching out the family's time in Jefferson.

It has been a while since I've read "The Sound and the Fury," and longer since "Light in August,"
but my memory says their structure is different. As I recall, "Light in August" felt very dense.

Just some thoughts, respond if you feel like it. I look forward to being in this group.

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my mother is a fish.

simplest chapter ever written, however, says so much. I do not know if Faulkner wanted the book to be considered poetic, his first book was poetry so you could be on to something.

AILD--possessed with poetry....

"The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning."

I definitely find some of the passages poetic, like this one:

"It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread and not the interval between."

But I also think it's interesting how Faulkner structures the novel through images and repeated
phrases--that seems to me a thing that poets, rather than novelists, often do.

Maybe this should be another post, but I have two more things to bring up about the book:

1. Does anyone see a similarity with The Grapes of Wrath? AILD was written in 1930, I think,
and GoW in 1939, but in the image of the family traveling on with set faces, inexorable,
and the juxtaposition of death and new life, they seem alike.

2. Vardaman and Darl talk about Anse's shadow walking around. Is this a reference to the speech
in Macbeth that gives the title of "The Sound and the Fury"? When Darl says that Cash is bleeding
sawdust, then complains bitterly, "How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in the sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls," it also makes me think of that speech.

I'm sure these things have been noted many times. Just interesting.