William Birdwood

Artistic Voice Authors have a distinct identity that you recognize when you read their work of art. The qualities and aspects of a text that give an author a distinct identity as an artist are known as their artistic voice. Denise Levertov and Anne Sexton both use different themes in their poetry that separate them from other poets. Denise Levertov writes about the unknown and the unsaid in life. Anne Sexton distinguishes herself by writing about her family, loves, and her emotional

From the beginning of William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” the reader is captured by the statement “so much depends” (Williams line 1). As this short work continues the reader is seeing a graceful image that Williams creates. The mind’s eye can envision a painting that is tranquil, yet has the quiet activity of a rural farm home. With this in mind, what exactly is the author sharing with the reader? The poem communicates charmingly the dependence a man has for a vital piece of equipment

The Poetry of Walt Whitman versus William Carlos Williams Perhaps the most basic and essential function of poetry is to evoke a particular response in the reader. 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

Personal choices are very important in one’s life. The stories that will be compared are, “The Use of Force”, by William Carlos Williams and “Lather and Nothing Else”, by Hernando Tellez. It is how the protagonists deal with a situation and how they use their intellectual thinking to deal with the situation. However, personal choices can change the outcome of a conflict, which will either be insightful or pessimistic. People make their own personal choices in everyday life. If the personal choices

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

1. In "Ask me" by 'William Stafford' (376), the element of poetry that stands out most for me is didactic poetry. William starts with "Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made." grabbing reader's attention towards the issue he is discussing in his poem. Some people stood with him during difficult times, some didn't "ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made." But, that doesn't make any difference. "We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and

to form. “The perception of human ambiguities and abstract possibilities in homely bits of nature may have originated in Robert Frost.”(N.A. 288) His work like most other authors of his time is influenced by others like Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. This poem is heavily influenced by Robert Frost. Frost likes to create poetry that helps you bring some meaning out of a situation presented in nature. For close inspection, the form, sentence structures, and syntax are a highlight of what

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

meaning behind this famous quote is that human and no such things can fully control or overcome the nature. We need to follow and accept the consequences of nature. Furthermore, this idea could influence William Carlos Williams about the power of nature. An American poet, Williams Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883, in his hometown, New Jersey. His first exposure to the literature was when his father reveals the poems written by Shakespeare to him. However, he decided to take the medical

Introducing the Imagist Poetry What is imagism? Only a handful of individuals were involved in this poetic movement at the beginning of the twentieth century in Britain, and in America. Imagism was about essential aesthetic ideas and criteria of modern poetry. What is the difference between imagist poetry and any other poems that are well known for their use of images? One would argue that every imagist poem is trying to reevaluate the way that someone normally would approach imagery. One of imagism