Flow to Unfold: The Fluidness in William Carlos Williamss Poetry
Jinze Ye
Abstract:Regarded as one of the greatest American poets in the twentieth century and the prominent poet of the Imagist, William Carlos Williams approaches his poetic world by the special use of images and syntax. In his poems, he invites the common and small things in everyday life as images. By the irregular arrangement of line and stanza breaks, these things are endowed with richer and deeper meanings which is far more than what is shown, open to readers to interpret. The syntax itself in Williams poems is poetic, an… Show more
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