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    Life Must Go On William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost are known as two of the greatest poets of their time and still highly regarded as two of the best poets of all time. Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, California according to The Associated Press. William Carlos Williams was born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, according to the poetryfoundation.org. Both men died just two months apart in 1963. Williams is the author of the poem “Spring and All” and

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    A doctor’s mind and heart are very much involved in the patient’s road to recovery. Evidence in support of this statement is shown in William Carlos William poem “ The Red Wheelbarrow, and his essay “The Practice.” Also, in Jack Coulehan poems “The Man with Stars Inside Him, The Six Hundred Pound Man,” and the article “What’s a good doctor and how do you make one?” Individually, each reading and poem has expressed doctor’s emotions with their patients, and what characteristics have guided them into

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    Grandmother And Shining

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    people because they are the seniors of everyone else. They also have a very tender heart, so they have to be taken care of attentively. In both pieces, “ The Aged Mother “, by Matsuo Basho and “ The Last Words of my English Grandmother “ by William Carlos Williams expand the theme of respecting and caring for the elders. The theme in both pieces are introduced in different ways, but they show a lot of similarities. “ The Aged Mother “ by Matsuo Basho is a folktale that illustrates about a

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    personalities and experiences that create the stories of their life. Sometimes these stories are shared with everyone and sometimes they are hidden. The hidden identity of William Carlos Williams ironically is everywhere in his poetry. In, The Thinker, the overall happy theme secretly represents a sad and disconnected part of his life. Williams dark and light times in his life influenced his work and even if his life looked wonderful, secretly there were many challenging factors he went through as his success

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    to Say” by William Carlos Williams is a note or a confession written by someone who has eaten all the plums, which someone else had saved for breakfast. The three stanzas are each composed of four short lines. The writer uses pronouns throughout the poem to refer to the fruit. He uses no punctuation and only two words are capitalized. The first line of the poem starts with “I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox”; in these words the writer is starting his confession (Williams). The writer

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    Fall Of Icarus Essay

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    depiction of the fall of Icarus was similar in the painting by Pieter Brueghel and the poem by William Carlos Williams in tone, theme, mood, and imagery. The painting and the poem had a similar tone in their depictions of the fall of Icarus. Both had a tone that was calm, merry, but also dark. In the painting, it showed an farmer plowing his fields, a man herding his sheep, a man looking into the water, all on a hot, sunny day. Meanwhile, while these people are merry and living their lives, Icarus

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    Force” by William Carlos Williams, a physician takes unrighteous actions while diagnosing diphtheria in a young girl. This child becomes extremely difficult, trying to prevent the doctor from looking at her throat and eventually, the doctor is overcome by pessimistic thoughts and applies “The Use of Force” to the situation. The negative emotions in Williams’ short story risk turning intentions into unethical actions, precisely through stream of consciousness, dialogue, and diction. Williams uses stream

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    In William Carlos William’s poem, “Red Wheelbarrow,” he describes a deceptively simple scene with just a few words in eight lines. The passing reader would perhaps look over the poem in just a couple of seconds and read it off as a frivolous or nonsensical poem that most likely has no explanation. Readers who actually look into the backstory, the form, and the meaning lying in the poem’s sixteen words, though, might discover something about the poet, and themselves also. Williams frequently used

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    It is my impression that a poem is complicated, obscure, and must have deep meaning. However, after reading William Carlos Williams’ poems, I felt like making a deep breath of fresh air. It was the first time I felt that poems could be simple like this. In his poems, everything is expressed in simple words. Even a reader as me, an international student, could understand his words easily. Also, the images he described are the common but neglected scenes. Nonetheless, when I closed the book, some of

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    William Carlos Williams’s two versions of “Young Woman At A Window” are at the same time very alike, but also different. Both versions are written in two lines stanzas with a maximum of three words by line. The most noticeable difference between them is that version one has an extra two-line stanza. We can also observe just by counting the words in each version, that version one is a little bit longer than version two. These two simple differences are helpful for us to decide which version reflects

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