Williams Carlos Williams once said,“ If they give you lined paper, write the other way.” The meaning of his quote to many, is not to follow in everyone else’s footsteps, but make a different path and make different footsteps. THis is why many see Williams as remarkable still to this day. In Williams’s life, he faced many tragedies not only in his career but in his poetry as well. Williams overcome these difficulties and they made him even more remarkable and influential to this day for his life, career, and his poems. William Carlos Williams started off being influential by just being born. Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, on September 17, 1883 (Bryant 1). As a child Williams was a very calm and patient kid growing up. “Williams’s …show more content…
Williams was an American poet throughout his life time (Borklund 314). Many say he was the best American poet of his time. Elmer W. Borklund, from The World Book Encyclopedia, says that “Of all modern American poets, he is probably the closest in spirit and technique to Walt Whitman” (314). To some others they would believe this too because of the way Whitman wrote is poetry. “As a general practitioner in Rutherford, the doctor-poet also wrote and published not only one verse but also fiction, essays, and autobiographies” (Carlsen 663). William’s work persuaded many other writer and artist into making astonishing things. One example of this is when William’s poem “The Great Figure” inspired Charles Demuth’s painting The Figure 5 in Gold in 1928 (Bryant 25). After Williams past he became remarkable and influential to the new generation to …show more content…
The speaker the many of “Spring and All” is a man from an older generation. This can be verified in lines 5-6 and 12-13, where it states, “muddy fields/ brown with dried weeds/ dead, brown leaves/ leafless vines”. Many see this poem’s speaker as an older man because he uses a small vocabulary when describing the “dead, brown leaves” in line 12. In line 1-2 it implies “By the road to the contagious hospital/ under the surge of the blue”. So in line two when it states “under the surge of the blue” in many people's’ eyes it looks like the poem is meant for an older generation because of the vast vocabulary the speaker uses. In the same poem “Spring and All” the attitude toward the subject of the poem that the speaker conveys is rough as they explain how the outside looks cold and uncertain before spring enters the new world. Evidence of this is in lines 16-19 where it says “They enter the new world naked,/ cold, uncertain of all/ save that they enter. All about them/ the cold familiar wind-”. Many people would also say that the author wrote this poem to explain what spring looks like when approaching and how it looks like a disaster before spring blooms into the new world. In lines 24-27 it shows how the birth of spring looks like a disaster by stating “But now the stark dignity of/ entrance still, the profound/ has come upon them: rooted, they/ grip
as a part of the season which is known as spring; it can be assumed he means all life and all things are subject to the ravages of time. Mortality is all around us and with it the stages of all life and time pass. In terms of the opening lines, thought, youth and beauty are fleeting indeed.
William Carlos Williams was from Rutherford, New Jersey, born in 1883. By trade, he was both a doctor and writer. Williams published poetry, novels, and essays in small magazines. Williams started as an imagist movement poet, “which emphasized simplicity, clarity of expression, and precision through the use of exacting visual images” (poets.org). He later began to write more about the life of everyday people. His poem, “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime” follows this writing style.
We obtain the feeling of spring when King describes the weather in this section: “The air soft and beautiful, the sky was darkening by slow degrees from blue to the calm and lovely violet of dusk” . The spring symbolises hope and joy and make the atmosphere calm contrary to the dark streets in the night that obtain a more scary atmosphere when there suddenly are less people than on the big avenues.
The seasons in the poem also can be seen as symbols of time passing in her life. Saying that in the height of her life she was much in love and knew what love was she says this all with four words “summer sang in me.” And as her life is in decline her lovers left her, this can be told by using “winter” as a symbol because it is the season of death and decline from life and the birds left the tree in winter. The “birds” can be seen as a literal symbol of the lovers that have left her or flown away or it can have the deeper meaning that in the last stages of our life all of our memories leave us tittering to our selves.
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost might have said this to other people but it mainly refers to him. Robert Frost’s poetry was different because of why he started writing, what techniques he used in The Road Not Taken, and how his life impact his poems.
Robin McLaurin Williams was a remarkable person who shaped the american culture as an actor and comedian. A lot of people see him as an idol. He was born on 21st July 1951 in Chicago, Ilinois. He grew up in wealthy conditions as the only child of Laura McLaurin, a founder of a modeling agency and Robert Fitzgerald who was a senior employee at Ford. He spent most of his childhood in different places due to his father's profession before the family finally settled in Marin County.
The environment that one is living in can supply hope. Todd Davis showed this through a seasonal metaphor. The narrator of the poem talks about weather changing and getting better, providing the metaphor. The weather getting warmer and the arrival of spring symbolizes new life and a new start. The narrator ponders, “I’m not sure/ why he couldn’t wait,” then later talks about blossoms opening (Davis 787, 4-5). This quote and other hints about spring are discussing how the new season is bringing new hope for many. The narrator says that “we understand/ the ones who decide to leave us in February” (Davis 787, 5-6). This is discussing how during the winter, life can feel so
“Sunshine seemed like gold,” (line 4) and “Whole damn world’s turned cold,” (line 5). The poet
By the end of the poem there is another shift in tone. The tone takes on a more hopeful meaning. Now, Bryant uses the spring season to compare to a new age. He mentions, “The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes/ In the full strength of years, matron, and maid,/ The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles.”(68-70) The rebirth of human life compares to nature in the sense that when nature is reborn in springtime everything turns green. The reader ends the poem with an enlightened sense of feeling instead of the dark and gloomy feeling they felt at the beginning of the poem.
Whitman wrote broad stanzas and focused on the whole of America as his inspiration. His lines covered a wide range of topics and generated multiple points of view for the reader. He called his life’s work “Leaves of Grass”; stressing the
Similar to John Winthrop, yet he thinks Williams “held diverse new and dangerous opinions” and had a part in his exile, the two share a common idea of everyone working together towards one goal (421). Williams is another contested writer in American literature debating how to peacefully encounter those native to a
This is significant because it emphasizes the melancholy and mournfulness that he depicts with imagery in the first stanza. Later on in the second stanza, he author describes the tree the narrator would have planted as a “green sapling rising among the twisted apple boughs”. The author uses visual color imagery of the color green to describe the sapling in order to emphasize just how young the newborn was when he died. Later on in the poem, the narrator speaks of himself and his brothers kneeling in front of the newly plated tree. The fact that they are kneeling represents respect for the deceased. When the narrator mentions that the weather is cold it is a reference back to the first stanza when he says “of an old year coming to an end”. Later on in the third stanza the author writes “all that remains above earth of a first born son” which means that the deceased child has been buried. They also compare the child to the size of “a few stray atoms” to emphasize that he was an infant. All of these symbols and comparisons to are significant because they are tied to the central assertion of remembrance and honoring of the dead with the family and rebirth.
Then, Williams finds a way to change the depressing mood of his poem by using specific words to convey feelings of hope. He does this in his fourth stanza with the lines: “Lifeless in appearance, sluggish/dazed spring approaches” (L14-15). Williams is saying that the plants, the trees, and the vines only appear to be dead, but they are not. Once again imagery is being used here. Also, what is going to save this otherwise seemingly desolate land is the approaching spring; “sluggish” and “dazed” as it may be, it is imminent – life is forthcoming. Williams also proffers up more hope with the lines: “One by one objects are defined/rooted, they/grip down and begin to awaken” (L22,26-27).
In the third stanza, the speaker praises the urn for its eternal youth and zeal. "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu.”(lines 21-22) He admires the trees that cover the lovers for they will not loose their leaves over the changing seasons. For this he it seems is grateful and feels happy. Moreover, the use of word spring is of key importance for spring signifies the start of a new seasonal cycle of