William Rowley

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

William Carlos Williams' This is Just to Say poem (p m) – noun: 1. A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme. 2. A composition in verse rather than in prose. 3. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry

Deriving Meaning from William Carlos Williams', The Young Housewife Everything depends on perspective. The uniqueness we bring to our reading is essential to the absorption of poems with Imagist elements. An example of this is the poem, "The Young Housewife", by William Carlos Williams. Perhaps it was a streak of laziness on my part, but I had very little imagination to offer this poem. Having had no experience as such, I didn't identify with the young housewife, the fish-man

The Use of Force, written by William Carlos Williams is a story about a conflicted unnamed doctor using physical force to determine a diagnosis. The question that is brought up is whether or not the doctor’s use of force was one of ethical duty or infuriating violence. The doctor makes it his duty to save the patient, Mathilda as she does not cooperate he makes a choice to go on and use force to open her mouth to determine her diagnosis. The choice of using force isn’t necessarily the questionable

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