Nantucket (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
“Nantucket” by William Carlos Williams is a short lyric poem of five two-line stanzas, which vividly describes a room, presumably on the Atlantic island of Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts. The poem consists entirely of Imagistic phrases, noting the flowers through the window, the sunshine, a glass tray, a glass pitcher and tumbler, a key, and finally “the/ immaculate white bed.” It reads like a verbal still-life, painterly in its precise rendering of things seen and adding to sight another sensual appeal: the “Smell of cleanliness.”
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