William Carlos Williams

“Then the battle began.” The story called “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams tells the tale of a doctor. The doctor gets a call from a family who is concerned about their daughter. The story is written in the first person and limits the reader because the narrator is unreliable. The doctor is an unreliable narrator because he decides what to tell the reader, he uses odd words, and because of the irony. The point of view affects the reading and understanding because of the way the…

The patient is an eighty- five-year-old man by the name of James Williams who is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He is my grandfather’s older twin brother who suffered a stroke a couple years back. Before the stroke he was a normal elderly man with regular speech and movements. One could barely tell the twins apart. Now post trauma, James seemed to have aged a lot faster than his brother. What once was clear and audible; his speech is now muffled, slurred, and repetitive. Once smooth and sturdy…

NO! STOP! LET GO! In the brief story, “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams, an excessive amount of force or harm is portrayed. Almost all hospitals require doctors to take the Hippocratic Oath, which states that the doctors will not purposely hurt or endanger their patients. Many of the characters in this story convey instances of harm of force to others, including the doctor, the little girl, and the girls parents. First, the doctor displays force when treating the child. He thought…

“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a short poem written by William Carlos Williams that is broken down into four stanzas. After the first time reading the poem you see Mr. Williams’ ability to depict a scenario with sixteen simple words. The structure of the poem and word usage brings the reader closer to the scene being painted by Mr. Williams’. The first stanza brings the reader in and captures there attention by stating “so much depends upon.” You begin to wonder what can be so important. The…

“I could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it.”(Williams 2). this is the authority doctors used in the 1800’s. In “The Use of Force”, by William Carlos Williams identifies the manner in which society looks at doctors in the 1800’s which compares and contrasts to how modern society sees the medical profession. Doctor’s back in the 1800’s will use drugs as the medicine. Some of the doctors did not even go to college or anything they will just practice with a regular doctor for…

transcendental thoughts and moving word choices to bring a sense of motivation for his readers aswell. Over time, many of Walt Whitman’s pieces of literature have influenced numerous writers and poets in the past century. For example, poets like William Carlos Williams and Hart…

are good reasons why many authors such as Gary Snyder, Billy Collins, Marilyn Nelson, Ruth Forman, William Carlos Williams, Bob Hicok, and so many others decide to write. And, these must be also the reasons why one should not hesitate to grab a pen and a paper, or a laptop to start writing. After carefully read these poems titled “Making it in Poetry” by Bob Hicok and “Poem” by William Carlos Williams from the book titled “Literature to Go” by Michael Meyer, these two authors were expressing…

But, it is impossible not to notice the unicity of William Carlos Williams’ style such as the lack of punctuation, which makes the poem feel as if it were a single sentenced, as if the teller is forced to stop from time to time for a very short period of time, and by the end of the poem, there is no dot, which…

it the former pain and anguish. In the most dire cases, even the promise of death is more alluring. In William Carlos Williams’ “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”, a despondent woman yearns to escape the clutches of her past memories. In her final confession, we learn that she wishes to succumb to her depression by “fall[ing] into those flowers and sink[ing] into the marsh near them.” (Williams, line 27-8). The prospect of dying is more appealing than dredging up the memories she shares with her…

William Carlos Williams' poetry generally appears to focus around the subtleties in life, things that would normally be overlooked by the common eye. In his poem "This is Just to Say", he gives us an empty apology for eating plums that were being saved for breakfast. An apology written for a couple of plums stolen from the ice box would seem excessive to most but to Williams the plums were only one of many problems in his lifeless marriage. "Lifeless marriage?” you say. How did we come to this…