In the short story "The Use of Force" published in 1938‚ William Carlos Williams reveals that violence is a significant aspect of human nature. During the story Williams uses the component of character to describe the intense emotions felt by the doctor. The author uses the characters of the doctor‚ the little girl‚ and her parents to show that emotions sometimes get in the way of what society expects from people. This is shown by the fact that the doctor who at first glance seems to be zealous
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The Red Wheelbarrow was an interesting poem‚ one because it’s short and was able to keep my attention for the 4 lines of text‚ two because it seemed to combine the two popular prose styles of romanticism and realism. William Carlos Williams utilizes a sense of realism by depicting a scene of an everyday red wheelbarrow on farm‚ but also romanticizes the wheel barrow in strange yet cool way. He puts the wheelbarrow‚ a simple yard tool‚ on pedestal by saying that "So much depends upon the red wheel
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the “Fair Grounds‚” and they move their bottoms too‚ those lower parts must be full of energy to hold up so much enthusiastic dancing‚ so move as the dancers move in Brueghel’s notable painting called The Kermess. General Explication William Carlos Williams’s “The Dance” (1944) illustrates the joyous‚ lively atmosphere of a fair. It also uses textual patterns to represent the dance depicted in Brueghel’s great painting‚ The Kermess. The speaker‚ who is describing the painting‚ uses the poem’s
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Justin Thomas Mrs. J Clark English 1 honors 2nd block 10 April 2013 Analysis of “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams In the book there is a doctor who wants to do well for others. He understands what the family is going through because in the story it says‚ “But I’ve seen two children lying dead the week of diphtheria because of neglect‚ I was not about to let that happen so it was diagnosed now or never.” There is also a girl who is sick. She has a sore throat and she won’t talk
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of others. William Carlos Williams worked hard throughout his career to reach his goal of perfecting his own simple and modern style of poetry‚ along with the help of some friends. William lived in the era of modernism and was considered to be an imagist poet. Williams strived to write poetry that focused on modern people and everyday situations in the simplest of words. But how did the events and people in his lifetime influence the way Williams wrote poetry? William Carlos Williams poetry was
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depicting the game of baseball and its remarkable players‚ coming across a poem seeking thorough cross sectioning of the crowd is unusual‚ and rarely encountered. William Carlos Williams has created a poem which portrays the crowd as a quasi-organized mob bent on either cheering for their team‚ or in turn‚ booing them. The reason why Williams does this is because he is portraying‚ in a sense‚ simplicity versus chaos with simplicity being the game of baseball itself and chaos being the crowd. The game
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William Carlos Williams: Craft Annotation The poet William Carlos Williams stands apart as one of the most influential poets of modern times. Williams’ poetic voice composes a unique picture in which the reader is immersed in the poet’s world of sensory perception. Williams believed that everything in our lives‚ no matter how simple‚ can be organized into poetic verse. Through Williams’ rather simplistic straightforward language and observations he speaks directly to ordinary individuals. Williams’
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American Literature are Ezra Pound‚ T. S. Elliot‚ Robert Frost‚ and William Carlos Williams. The works of Pound‚ whose poetry focused mainly on the desolate state of the modern world‚ influenced by the poems of the other three poets. Elliot‚ too‚ made the ruin of the world his primary theme Frost whose topics ranged from nature to narratives‚ wrote his poetry in a somewhat light manner‚ or with a cool‚ neutral outlook. Williams‚ although not prone to sentimentalism‚ also wrote his poetry in a rather
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early 1900’s was described as Imagism. This style of writing is in which a writer writes in a specific way that evokes an image within the audience’s minds. Two writers from this time period that wrote in the Imagist style were William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Williams became known for his imagist works such as “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This is Just to Say‚” both of which are forms of imagism but in far different ways. A work that stood out from the imagist works was “In a Station of the Metro
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tell our trusted medical professional what ails us. But what happens when the person who is supposed to help us‚ a master of medicine‚ does not have our best interest at heart? This question is asked in the short story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams. The story is set in the Depression era. An unnamed doctor arrives at a new patient’s home to assess a female child for a sore throat. Her parents are present‚ but are at a loss for what to do to help their daughter‚ who refuses to open her
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