Questions tagged [william-carlos-williams]
Questions about the works of William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) or his life as a writer.
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What does "and who is poorer than he who is in love..." from "The Mental Hospital Garden" by William Carlos Williams mean?
What do the following lines from the poem "The Mental Hospital Garden" by William Carlos Williams mean?
and who is poorer than he
who is in love
when birds are nesting
in the spring of the ...
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What does “it” refer to in this line from “The Mental Hospital Garden”?
What is “it” in the following lines from the poem "The Mental Hospital Garden" by William Carlos Williams?
It is a bounty
from a last year’s bird’s nest.
I have two weak theories: The birds ...
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To what extent (if any) was beat literature a deliberate rejection of modernism?
A key point of modernism is that it was self-consciously "artistic" in the sense that it deliberately sought to find new literary forms, built on and alluding to existing works in the canon. ...
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Effect of enjambment in "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
In "The Red Wheelbarrow" the poet William Carlos Williams uses enjambment to great effect (or so I have read):
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the ...
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Why are some people dissatisfied with the titling of "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
I have read that many critics have been dissatisfied with the modern titling of XXII from Spring and All by William Carlos Williams as "The Red Wheelbarrow". Neil Easterbrook was displeased with the ...
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What is "This is Just to Say" about?
In "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams, the speaker appears to deliver an apology for stealing the plums of the person at whom the poem is targeted. I have heard some people analyze this ...
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Is Williams's This Is Just to Say an imagist poem, an objectivist poem or neither?
The Wikipedia article about the short poem "This Is Just to Say" claims the text is an imagist poem without backing up that claim.
Williams contributed to the anthology Des Imagistes, published in ...
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Writing/Poetry technique - Requiring reader to have prior knowledge
In the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, for the reader to infer the context of the poem - why so much depends on the red wheelbarrow, the reader has to know that William Carlos ...
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How is William Carlos Williams's affection expressed in "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
In the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, there is no specific mention of any person. However, he wrote that the poem "sprang from affection" for an old man named Marshall, to ...
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