William Carlos Williams

BIOGRAPHY
September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963 Born and died in Rutherford, NJ Received Medical Degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Worked as a general practitioner Also wrote novels and plays

INFLUENCES
Joined Imagist movement with friends Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle Joined The Others, a group of writers & artists in NY Critical of other modernist poets like T.S. Eliot Respected the works of Allen Ginsberg

STYLE
Differed from others in Imagist movement, later rejected the movement Used colloquial English Triadic-line poetry Believed in writing about everyday lives, people, etc.

THE RED WHEELBARROW

EXPLICATION!!
The Red Wheelbarrow No meter No meter No meeeeeeetering or peeeeetering

ELECTION DAY
Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits in the doorway of a broken house-boards for windows plaster falling from between the stones and strokes the head of a spotted dog

THE DESOLATE FIELD

Vast and grey, the sky is a simulacrum to all but him whose days are vast and grey and In the tall, dried grasses a goat stirs with nozzle searching the ground. My head is in the air but who am I . . . ? -- and my heart stops amazed at the thought of love vast and grey yearning silently over me.

BUS STOP
The bus screeches to a halt and waits for schoolchildren in hues of blue and pink

BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Williams, William Carlos." Encyclopdia Britannica. Encyclopdia Britannica Online School Edition.Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc., 2012. Web. 17 May 2012. <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9077081>.