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    William Carlos Williams is a leader of the Modern Poetry movement with peers such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, but broke away from it to experiment more in his own style. He was extremely creative, playing with forms and styles of writing and not restricting himself to poetry, however, which he excelled at. The subjects of his poems were not always people, but specific images, especially momentary ones. Many of his poems start with the word "The," which indicates that the poem will describe whatever

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    William Carlos Williams

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    William Carlos Williams is known for being a poet, but what many people may not know is the fact that he was a pediatrician. Notable pieces written by Williams include, “The Red Wheelbarrow,”. “Paterson,”. and, “This Is Just To Say”.William Carlos Williams is also known for being a children's writer and a bilingual writer. Williams is also known for winning the Pulitzer Prize for his piece titled ‘Brueghel’. William Carlos Williams’ success as a writer comes from the his use of the rhythms of normal

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    visible to the eye. William Carlos Williams wrote poetry that, when put under a microscope, the reader could see the true complexity of the poem hidden beneath simplicity. William had an artistic eye, which he must have had inherited from his parents, who were painters (Llanas 47). “William Carlos Williams is as magically observant and mimetic as a good novelist….how well he calls into existence our precarious, confused, partial looking out at the world” (qtd. Jarrell). William Carlos Williams’s poems

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    of these poets impacted by these movements was William Carlos Williams. His rapidly changing work changed for the better and caused him to become an influential literary figure. A literary experimenter and innovator, William Carlos Williams, was a busy and hardworking poet. William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, NJ on September 17, 1883. He was introduced to literature and the arts, especially Shakespeare, at a fairly young age. Williams became a doctor and fulfilled his passion every

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    Kasper William Carlos Williams’ poetry was greatly influenced by his family's beliefs and his experiences as a child and young adult. Williams’ writing reflects the chaos of his early adulthood when he pursued two different professions at once. His parents wanted him to be a doctor, and he practiced medicine for a period of time, but his true calling was writing. Williams owned his own medical practice, and at the same time, he was a published poet. This lack of direction and pressure in Williams’ life

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    William Carlos Williams was an American author, screenwriter, and poet who was “one of the great forces in the twentieth-century verse” (Rosenthal 1). Remarkably, Williams was also a professional doctor who continued to practice medicine fulltime while simultaneously writing hundreds of pieces of literature. He was the son of a New York businessman, spoke three languages, and even studied advanced pediatrics in Germany. He was part of the professional, upper class and had traveled around the world

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    and began to spread across the world as a new form of literary style. William Carlos Williams was just one of many poets who incorporated Imagism into each of his poems. Using skills such as objectivism allows Williams to paint a picture for each individual reader as the read through his poems. On September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, United States of America, the American poet by the name of William Carlos Williams was born. Born and raised in Rutherford, New Jersey he was a child of

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    of William Carlos Williams “Nothing 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 didn’t see each other very much. When Williams was

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    doctors can be villains. Patients whose doctor’s force treatment on them perceive this as a violation of their rights. The use of force should be mandatory when patient health becomes life threatening to themselves and the public at large. William Carlos Williams in his story, The Use of Force, described the unfolding of a dramatic encounter between a doctor and a little girl named Matilde, whose parents called the doctor for help because of concern for her health. Matilde was suspected of having diphtheria

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    was trying to pry mathilda’s mouth open. May a doctor have more power on whether to lie to his patient’s or to tell them the truth. A physician should respect the patient’s wishes on whether to live or whether to die. “The Use of Force’’ by William Carlos Williams brings up the question if it is ever justifiable for a medical professional to use force. First of all in a topic in the “MSNBC Equality/Health” talks about a law forcing doctors to lie to patients about abortion. It states”while the american

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