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The poem is written in a brief, haiku-like free-verse form. [3] With regard to the inspiration for the poem, Williams wrote in 1954: ["The Red Wheelbarrow"] sprang from affection for an old Negro named Marshall. He had been a fisherman, caught porgies off Gloucester. He used to tell me how he had to work in the cold in freezing weather ...
His most anthologized poem is "The Red Wheelbarrow", an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles (see also "This Is Just to Say"). However, Williams, like his peer and friend Ezra Pound, had rejected the Imagist movement by the time this poem was published as part of Spring and All in 1923.
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.
(Wall poem in The Hague) "This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2] [3]
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Sour Grapes: a book of poems [1] is an early work by William Carlos Williams. [1]
Al Que Quiere! is a collection of 52 poems by William Carlos Williams, published in 1917 by the Four Seas Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Williams paid $50 to the publisher. [ 1 ] The original edition announces, "Many of the poems in this book have appeared in magazines, especially in Poetry , Others , The Egoist , and The Poetry Journal ."
"Jean Beicke" is a work of short fiction by William Carlos Williams first published in Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories in 1933. [1] The story appeared in the 1938 collection Life Along the Passaic River [2]