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    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

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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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    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

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    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

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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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    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

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    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

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    A Pretty How Town

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    At one point or another in one’s lifetime, people let go one thing to try and move on to something bigger and better, whether it’s a new job or new way of life. In its entirety, modernism is similar. It can be defined as moving away from the traditional creations and activities towards news tasks formed by the individualism and freedom within a man or woman. For instance, in the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker eventually moves on from his previous set of ideas to something new. Similarly

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    Red Wheelbarrow

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    “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem written by William Carlos Williams in 1921, and it first appeared in Williams’ collection of poetry entitled Spring and All which was published in 1923. One of the most famous poems of the twentieth century, “The Red Wheelbarrow” is an illustrative poem. This poem is composed of one sentence that is broken up into four stanzas of two lines each. Williams has broken down this sentence to a basic level in an attempt to paint a picture of a common image. With unusual

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    Use Of Force

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    The Use of Force William Carlos Williams, the author of the story uses a doctor, which is on a house call to show variety of emotions and decision making that a doctor has to deal with. The author also illustrates a brief conflict between a patient and a doctor. The use of force is a short story about one little girl, Mathilda Olson. She has been severely sick from past 3 days. Mathilda Olson may have diphtheria, a contagious disease that has been going around in the area, and that disease had killed

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