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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“This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious‚ so sweet and so cold.” At first view‚ you may not believe this simple casual note of apology becomes a poem if it is broken into several lines. People might feel slight resistance to accepting it as a poem. Nevertheless‚ this is a poem which was written by William Carlos Williams‚ the well-known poet for his uncustomary and revolutionary experimental
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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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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‚” by Ezra pound which is a very simplistic
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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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In the story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos‚ the doctor’s decision to force the examination of the child was the right decision and it was justified. From beginning there distrust of the doctor by the family this was expressed in the book as “I could see that they were all very nervous‚ eyeing me up and down distrustfully. Most children hate going to doctor. There are many children who will accept going to the doctor‚ and are okay as long as there is no pain during the visit. The child
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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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Individualism was a common theme during the Transcendental period in American literature. The poem that I like the best was “Danse Russe” by William Carlos Williams. William Carlos Williams among other poets wrote poems during this period on subjects such as relationships‚ family‚ ancestors and home life. In this period each poet writes about their relationships‚ family‚ ancestors and home life‚ which makes this period of poetry very individualistic and very personal. Each poet of this period tries
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Q) What philosophy do Ezra Pound‚ William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore share? A) Ezra Pound‚ William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore were all modernist poets. Modernist poetry deals with experiment and innovation. All three were imagists‚ though at a later stage‚ William Carlos Williams started disagreeing with Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was the most aggressive of the modernist poets‚ who made “Make it new!” his battle cry. He turned to classical Chinese poetry as his
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