William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was one of the leading poets of the Imagist school, a branch of Modernism that aimed to break with the sentimental, elaborate style of late Victorian poetry and focus on...

I see this poem a little differently than the previous answerer, but that is part of what is so wonderful about poetry! It can be interpreted in many different ways.I see the poem's imagery as...

“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” was written by William Carlos Williams who wrote under the labels of modernist and imagist. He favored the preciseness of imagery with clear, sharp language....

"Burning the Christmas Greens" was written in 1944, in the shadow of World War II, but likely hearkens back to another Christmas Day: December 25, 1918, the date of Williams's father's death. The...

In A sort of Song and in The Red Wheelbarrow, Williams confronts "how" a poem should be written. It should not be used as a vehicle for expressing ideas but showing the essence of things. He was...

Williams' poem is meant to evoke a famous painting, Pieter Breugel the Elder's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." The painting in turn refers to the mythic story of Icarus, who, using a set of...

William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is what a piece of ekphrastic literature, meaning that it is based on a work of art. The poem, like Auden's more famous poem "The Musee...

'The Doctor Stories' is an interesting collection of a physician's thoughts: not only does it speak to art/the language of stories but it also includes many parallels and interdisciplinary...

In the poem “Burning the Christmas Greens,” William Carlos Williams recalls the post-Christmas ritual of collecting and burning discarded trees whose “time past.” The poet makes an occasion that...

In “Gulls,” William Carlos Williams presents a speaker who is, apparently, a wise person in the community, a teacher, a poet perhaps, who imparts lessons to his fellow townspeople. This speaker...

You're absolutely right in saying that the speaker in William Carlos Williams' short story "Verbal Transcription -- 6 AM" is "talking about so many ordinary life matters." If you consider what...

Defamiliarization is the poetic process of taking ordinary objects and using them in a poem in such a way that the reader sees them as new or different. Williams often used common things in his...

Twentieth-century poets who wrote in the Minimalist style, such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, expressed their thoughts in as succinct and concise a manner as possible, while at the...

Nature poetry down through the ages, from the Greeks and early oriental poets, up through the pastoral (shepherd) poetry of the Romantics, to modern-day paeans to Nature, treated Nature as...

Williams’ poetry is distinctive in several ways – its “American” voice, its unrhymed short line broken into phrases, and especially in the way he uses metaphors, never obvious or clichéd, but...

These poems all share Williams’ short-line, unrhymed cadenced, almost shorthand imagery. “Wheelbarrow,” the most often anthologized of these three poems, suggests the typical farmyard setting but...

The early twentieth century in America (and in all the Western world) was a transition time for art and literature; the release from the traditions of Victorianism manifested itself in all kinds of...

American poetry of the nineteenth century was, in style, verse form, and subject matter, basically an import from England and the rest of Europe—until Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, there was no...