William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
"Among the poets of his own illustrious generation, William Carlos Williams
was the man on the margin, the incorrigible maverick, the embattled
messiah." (Unger 402) Throughout his career, Williams has always been
known as an experimenter, an innovator, and a revolutionary figure in
American poetry. He is regarded as an important and influential poet
because of his unique and unusually plain style. Living a life that was
rather conventional, using a writing style that was essentially breaking
the mold, and having a style that most critics were unsure about, Williams
established a new genre to the poetic world.
THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE
William Carlos Williams; born on ...
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the Bible (DISC 1). To further
elevate his level of knowledge, Williams attended the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Medicine, and later
visited the University of Leipzig, for post-graduate study (Bloom 4338).
Williams fulfilled his parents' lofty standards by becoming a general
practitioner with his degree from Pennsylvania. Their standards,
unfortunately, did not match up with those of Williams himself. He did not
wish to become
a doctor, but found himself becoming infatuated with poetry. He often
found himself torn between what he wanted to do, and what his parents
wished for him to do. He was caught, because his love was not as promising
a career as becoming a doctor. However, as made evident out by Gale
Research in their DISCovering Authors series, a career in medicine could
actually assist Williams in his writing passion. From his medical practice,
he was able to earn enough money to give him the financial freedom to
experiment with his ...
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true.
William Carlos Williams passed away on March 4, 1963, a man who
lived a life so plain, yet his early stages were spoon-fed with nothing but
knowledge for the mind. He seemed to accomplish all he was on this planet
for except for one thing, his final and most lengthy poem – a poem that was
never completed, but maybe was never meant to be.
THE POEM WILL LAST FOREVER
After one reads a selection of poems by Williams, he might think that
Williams could be mentally disturbed. This notion could easily be proven
false by a thorough analyzation of his poems. Williams is actually quite
the opposite. The following selection is entitled "The Rose Fades…":
The rose fades
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