Monday, May 3, 2010
William Carlos Williams
I particularly have mixed emotions about William Carlos Willams, because I find his poetry vague and unengaging on the surface, but their always seems to be an underlying meaning. In many of his poems, we simply see him describing his surroundings plainly but vividly. I can understand why many readers would seem to turn away from his works, because at first glance you gain nothing from it. For example, in the poem " blizzard," he is simply describing a snowstorm that left people stranded and lonely. However, this poem must be studied to have any moral understanding. I interpreted that the poem was about life and the obstacles while enduring it.
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"No ideas but in things." This statement says much about what Williams said he was trying to do. Like you, I sometimes think that his work seems shallow. At the same time, I cannot get some of his poems out of my mind; they spring up and make me think about something that might have happened to me that day. I wonder if he really was a bit of a genius and was successful in accomplishing what he set out to do with his work. You need to be a bit more careful about your grammar. 'their' is the wrong word as used in your post.
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