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William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsberg
1,601 wordsIrwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Louis Ginsberg, Allens dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, Allen's home life was dominated by his mother's bizarre and frightening episodes. A severe paranoid, she trusted Allen when she was convinced the rest of the family and the...
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William Carlos Williams The Imagist
1,589 wordsIt is said that people can create art in their unique way to express themselves. William Carlos Williams tried to capture the direct image of the object and cloud out its surroundings. He attempted to focus the poem on the subject in order to eliminate any irrelevant responses from its surroundings. Through language and imagery, William Carlos Williams uses certain objects in the world that would be poetic no matter how directly they are presented. He accomplishes this using imagism. According t...
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William Carlos Williams 20 Th Century
1,020 wordsWilliams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963), American writer, whose use of simple, direct language marked a new course in 20 th-century poetry. Unlike some other writers of his time, such as T. S. Eliot, Williams avoided complexity and obscure symbolism. Instead, he produced lyrics, such as this one from "January Morning" (1938), that contain few difficult references: "All this-/ was for you, old woman. / I wanted to write a poem/ that you would understand. " Williams's greatest achievement as a writ...
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The Life Of William Carlos Williams
1,147 wordsNothing whips my blood like verse. These are the famous words of the great poet, William Carlos Williams. Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. He spent most of his life in Rutherford, so today he is a local hero. Williams mother was Puerto Rican and almost had pure Spanish blood. His father was American. As a child, Williams dad was a salesman and was often away from home. Thus, they didnt see each other very much. When Williams was four, he attended school in Switz...
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William Carlos Williams Men And Women
494 wordsThe relationship between men and women has always been complicated and sometimes even a really loving relationship cannot survive if people chose their personal longing as a priority. No matter how strong are the values of a man or a woman they should never forget about feelings and happiness that are nowhere else to be found but in the heart of the beloved person. Men and women fight in relationships: fight for more independence, fight to prove their rightness and keep forgetting that love is n...
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William Carlos Williams York International Universities Press Voyeur
1,058 words... for loneliness implies precisely the lack of and desire for an other. "Too hot" to be "at ease, " Williams, playing the voyeur, finds this other in the form of the sexually budding girls. In his role as voyeur, Williams is paradoxically trapped between his narcissistic desire to identify with the girls and an irreconcilable need to reassert the presence of his ego. As Freud recognized, its active counterpart accompanies every passive perversion. He who is a voyeur in his unconscious is conco...
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Walt Whitman And William Carlos Williams
665 wordsWalt Whitman (1819 - 1892) and William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963) are two American poets, who have significantly influenced contemporary literature. Whitman and Williams brought new ideas into poetry and many outstanding American poets of the twentieth century name Whitman and Williams as their tutors. Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams belong to different generations and social circles, but many literary critics, authors and linguists agree that Williams proceeds the ideas of Whitman. ...
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The Theme Of William Carlos Williams Use Force
938 wordsThe theme of William Carlos Williams The Use of Force William Carlos Williams The Use of Force is a short story that depicts the variety of feelings of a doctor who visits a home call. The main theme of the story is the use of force in the interpersonal relations of people. But the force is not something that is used meaninglessly and brutally, it is rather something by the means of which one party attempts to defend own beliefs, judgements, and acts. The Use of Force is a story that employs the...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
3,547 wordsNicholas Everett Olson, Charles (1910 - 70), was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where he studied American civilization. During the Second World War he worked for the Democratic Party and for the Office of War information as assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division. His first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Melville Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico where he was studyi...
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William Carlos Williams External World
2,179 wordsPerhaps the most basic and essential function of poetry is to evoke a particular response in threaded. The poet, desiring to convey on emotion or inspiration, uses the imagination to create a structure that will properly communicate his state of mind. In essence he is attempting to bring himself and the reader closer, to establish a relationship. William Carlos Williams contends that art gives the feeling of completion by revealing the oneness of experience (194) This argument relies on the prec...
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William Carlos Williams T S Eliot
2,200 wordsA Poets Valediction by Nicholas OConnell In a final interview, poet Denise Levertov discusses the egotism of modern poetry, the sacredness of writing, and the spiritual hunger of our technologically dependent society. Denise Levertov, who died on December 20, 1997, was much loved by her readers and an inspiration to several generations of poets. She forged a middle path in modern poetry, marrying the hard, dry objective style of the Imagist poets with the music and metaphysical yearnings of figu...
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William Carlos Williams Audrey T Rodgers Icarus
638 wordsAudrey T. Rodgers " Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" touches upon the Greek myth of the tragedy of Icarus. As we know, according to Ovid and Appolodorus, Icarus, son of Daedalus, took flight from imprisonment wearing the fragile wings his father had fashioned for him. Heedless of his fathers warning to keep a middle course over the sea and avoid closeness with the sun, the soaring boy exultantly flew too close to the burning sun, which melted his wings so that Icarus hurtled to the s...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
3,688 wordsThomas R. Whitaker " Portrait of a Lady, " which is really another paradoxical self-portrait, amusingly renders the descending movements of that fiber of swift attention with which Kora in Hell was primarily concerned The descent, of course, is not merely visual. The poem moves, through interior dialogue, from an easy formalized tribute toward a more disturbing contact. The witty and sentimental style of Watteau or of Fragonard (whose " The Swing" does leave a slipper hanging...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
6,249 wordsEXPLANATION: " The Red Wheelbarrow" Line The opening lines set the tone for the rest of the poem. Since the poem is composed of one sentence broken up at various intervals, it is truthful to say that " so much depends upon" each line of the poem. This is so because the form of the poem is also its meaning. This may seem confusing, but by the end of the poem the image of the wheelbarrow is seen as the actual poem, as in a painting when one sees an image of an apple, the apple ...
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