The Wind Increases (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Poetry or poets, Storms, Weather, Wind
The Poem
“The Wind Increases” is a short lyric poem in free verse composed of twenty-eight lines. All the lines of the poem are arranged in such a way as to suggest the motion of wind. In this sense, the poem could be said to be a shaped verse, a type of poem in which the typographical shape of the words on the page represents some part of the subject. Because the overall structural pattern of the poem is so loosely arranged, the poem has no set stanzaic form. In fact, Thomas R. Whitaker, in William Carlos Williams (1968), states that the way that the lines are...
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