The Yachts (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Sailing or sailors
The Poem
The title of William Carlos Williams’s “The Yachts” serves as the first two words of the poem. Making the title and the poem continuous in this manner is a technique he uses elsewhere, in poems such as “To a Poor Old Woman” and “The Raper from Passenack.” It calls into question the separability of the poem’s subject and its expression. Yachts have always been an emblem of wealth, but beginning in the 1890’s they became particularly strongly identified with American business magnates who did battle for the America’s Cup in races off Newport, Rhode...
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