Carlos Williams Influences

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William Carlos Williams was born on September 17th, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. William Carlos Williams had been raised on art and literature from the influence of his parents as a child. Williams had attended school in New Jersey until he was sent to a school in Paris. For medical school, Williams attended University of Pennsylvania, where he then met Ezra Pound. After graduating from Pennsylvania, his first book of poetry was published in 1909. With growing up, Williams had met other poets who had helped spark his writing. William Carlos Williams took part in the Modernist and Imagist movement. For example, his poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,” is an example of a poem from the Imagist movement by focusing on the wheelbarrow, the color, and…show more content…
Williams had been in the medical field as a doctor while also publishing poetry and frequently writing. In later life, mentoring young writers became a hobby of this outstanding poet. By mentoring young writers, Williams took place in the influence of several of the later movements in the 50’s. In 1948 and 1949, Williams suffered a heart attack and a few strokes. While dealing with severe depression, he spent four months in the hospital in 1953. 10 years later, on March 4th, William Carlos Williams had died. After leaving a deep footprint on America’s literature past, Williams poetry will live on…show more content…
This poem shows growth of the girl’s mind over time, when still dealing with the same scene and situation. The girl portrays a negative outlook on the situation throughout the whole poem but the reasoning behind her anger shifts. In the beginning of the poem, she fears to have gotten a disease from this man. That detail is clearly stated when Williams writes “No one who is not diseased could be so insanely cruel” (10). The fear of an infection would last a lifetime and change the way her life is being portrayed and lived. Towards the end of the poem, the fear of disease is shifted to hatred for all men. William writes, “But it’s the foulness of it can’t/ be cured. And hatred, hatred of all men/- and disgust.”(37-39), which helps distinguish the feeling change. This poem can be related to in the time period that it was written, present, and future because of the context. The poem overall comes across as a viewing of the fear that women and men have when dealing with what could possibly happen in a situation with someone that has thoughts outside of the social norms. Queen Anne's Lace - Poem by William Carlos Williams Her body is not so white as anemone petals nor so smooth--nor so remote a thing. It is a

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