Essays on William Carlos Williams

For an ordinary person a poem is just a literary work written with the help of rhyme and rhythm. But how do the poets see it? With the help of irony, style and tone Billy Collins, Marilyn Nelson, Ruth Forman, Gary Snyder, Bob Hicok and William Carlos Williams try to acquaint the reader with their own vision of poetry, because for them it is more than an art of rhythmical composition. In the poem Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins encourages the reader to treat every piece of poetry as a unique and precious thing. The poem is written in ...

Artists in various fields and media have often drawn inspiration from their fellow artists who work in different formats. For example, writers have often been influenced by music; and movies have often been based on novels or plays. In the 20th century, however, there was a very close alliance between writers and visual artists, both in American and in Europe. Modernist painters often developed friendships with modernist writers and poets, and modernist poets often used modern paintings as an inspiration for their poems. This trend continued in the second half of the twentieth century, as the post-modern or Beat ...

Abstract

In the pre-colonial era and shortly after the colonial period, border crossing by communities was a common phenomenon and occurrence. The realization of indigenous communities of the presence of an immigrant community amongst them did not come as a shocker to the natives. These immigrant communities moved from one place to another for different reasons. There were those who crossed these borders in search of better lifestyles. There were those who had also been displaced by war activities and, therefore, had to cross these boundaries in search of peaceful settlements. Still, there were those who moved from one boundary to the ...

Poetry is a genre in literature that concerns itself with presenting and communicating ideas and moral teachings in a way that evoke feelings and conscience of readers to aspects of society addressed by the poet. To understand and appreciate a poets work one need to appreciate the setting and language used to deliver the theme and teachings. These literary elements include themes, poetic use of language and character traits of the persona in deliverance of the literary work (Rath, 2003). The poet also uses themes in the poem to convey his message. A theme can be defined as the focus of ...

“Instructor’s Name”

“To Waken an Old Lady”, by William Carlos Williams, is a poem which focuses on old age and its connotations. The poet makes use of different elements of poetry, such as language, style and content, to make the poem appealing and at the same time easily comprehendible. Carlos Williams always tries to express his views in an American context and the rhythm of his poems reflects the speech pattern of common American people. He was one of those few people who were able to communicate poetically with an average American. He uses scenes and incidents from everyday life in his ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

Summary

Wystan Hugh Auden: Wystan Hugh Auden was born in 1907, in York, England but his parents moved to Birmingham when he was young. Auden was overly intelligent and was transformed by the poetry of Robert Frost and Thomas Hardy Michael Hamburger: Michael Hamburger was a translator, a poet and a critic born in Berlin in 1924. Hamburger has translated the works of very many poets from German to English. William Carlos Williams: William Carlos William was born on the 17th of September, 1883. William was a poet renowned for his collection that include Spring and All (1923), Kora in Hell (1920), ...