William+Carlos+Williams

=William Carlos Williams =



__Background Information__

In 1883, William Carlos Williams was born in New Jersey. His interest in poetry started when he was in high school, which was also when he decided he would be a doctor along as a poet. While becoming a huge influence in poetry, he continued his practice to be a doctor. Soon, he embarked to be a poet, novelist, and playwright. His first published poems were in small magazines. "He was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement" (Academy of American Poets). He became sick of writing the same style of poetry as everyone else, as he felt he was too attached to the European culture and traditions. He continued to experiment with new techniques, and invented a fresh- and American- writing style that focused more on everyday lives and circumstances. Williams continued to grow more popular in the 50's and 60's, because younger poets were impressed by him. His most famous works are said to be //Kora In Hell, Spring and All,// and Pictures from //Brueghel and Other Poems.//

__3 Poems__

Kora in Hell
Why go further? One might conceivably rectify the rhythm, study all out and arrive at the perfection of a tiger lily or a china doorknob. One might lift all out of the ruck, be a worthy successor to the man in the moon. Instead of breaking the back of a willing phrase why not try to follow the wheel through approach death at a walk, take in all the scenery. There s as much reason one way as the other and then one never knows perhaps we ll bring back Euridice this time! Between two contending forces there may at all times arrive that moment when the stress is equal on both sides so that with a great pushing a great stability results giving a picture of perfect rest. And so it may be that once upon the way the end drives back upon the beginning and a stoppage will occur. At such a time the poet shrinks from the doom that is calling him forgetting the delicate rhythms of perfect beauty, preferring in his mind the gross buffetings of good and evil fortune.


 * Literary Techniques **

1.) Personification- red 2.)Hyperbole- teal 3.)Connotation- pink

__Personification__: "breaking the back of a willing phrase"
 * Song References **

"Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?" -Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas  __Hyperbole__: "the poet shrinks from the doom"

"This guy's got em scared to death" -I'll Make a Man Out of You from Mulan

__Connotation: __ ​"gross buffetings of good and evil fortune"

"Bet'cha on land, they understand, Bet they don't, reprimand their daughters  Bright young women" (connotation towards the humans) -Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid 

Spring and All
By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines—

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches—

They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind—

Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf

One by one objects are defined— It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of entrance—Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted they grip down and begin to awaken

1.) Imagery- green 2.) Personification- red 3.) Connotation- blue
 * Literary Techniques **

__Imagery __: "All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes"
 * Song References **

"I wanna be like you I wanna talk like you Walk like you, too You'll see it's true" -I Wanna Be Like You from the Jungle Book

__Personification: __ "uncertain of all save that they enter" (the vines)

"Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain, can you paint with all the colors of the wind" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas

__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Connotation: __ "contagious hospital"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"It's a scary world out there"
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Mother Knows Best from Tangled

<span style="color: #2a779f; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">dispassionately.
1.) Connotation (authors p.o.v)- pink 2.) Repetition- blue 3.) Imagery- light blue
 * Literary Techniques **

__<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Connotation: __
 * Song References **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"simple thing as a baby"
"Something will go wrong, I swear Ruffians, thugs  Poison ivy, quicksand  Cannibals and snakes,  the plague" (towards the outside world) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Mother Knows Best from Tangled <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Repetition: __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

armed with"
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"Bon jour! Bon jour! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bon jour! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bon jour! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bon jour!" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Little Town from Beauty and The Beast <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Imagery: __

had been provided"
"The curl in her lips

The ice in her stair" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmations "William Carlos Williams." //William Carlos Williams//. Academy Of American Poets, n.d. Web. 9 May 2013. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/119>.