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The Red Wheelbarrow" is a poem by American modernist poet William Carlos Williams. Originally published without a title, it was designated " XXII " in Williams' 1923 book Spring and All , a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse and prose.
In 1923, Williams published Spring and All, one of his seminal books of poetry, which contained the classics "By the road to the contagious hospital", "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "To Elsie". However, in 1922, the publication of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land had become a literary sensation that overshadowed Williams's very different brand of ...
The poem appears to the reader like a piece of found poetry. [4] Metrically, the poem exhibits no regularity of stress or of syllable count. Except for lines two and five (each an iamb) and lines eight and nine (each an amphibrach), no two lines have the same metrical form. [4]
Spring and All is a hybrid work consisting of alternating sections of prose and free verse.It might best be understood as a manifesto of the imagination. The prose passages are a dramatic, energetic and often cryptic series of statements about the ways in which language can be renewed in such a way that it does not describe the world but recreates it.
Literary critic Robert F. Gish describes Beer and Cold Cuts as “working man and ethnic stories which is not so much a separate volume of stories but...twenty common or proletarian stories,” adding that they had been written “for the most part before 1950.” [2] Literary critic Linda Welshimer Wagner writes: “Beer and Cold Cuts, the third group of stories Williams included in his 1950 ...
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“The ‘knife’ and the ‘times’ in the title may well be seen as metaphors…In certain instances the ‘knife’ is a cutting tongue of verbal insults and abuses; in other instances it is the looming threat of insanity and nervous breakdown, of losing control of one’s life, one’s job, one’s mental as well as physical health.
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