"The Tempers" by William Carlos Williams is a set of poems from the early 1900s filled with different poems about feelings such as love and nature, as well as looking inside oneself, showing the change from old styles and topics. Williams is famous for using strong pictures in his writing and showing deep feelings, often digging into the hard parts of what it means to be human. Each poem gives a different view of life, mixing personal feelings with big ideas about existence. From the fun look at love in "The Fool's Song" to the sad thoughts in "Crude Lament," Williams shows many different human emotions and experiences. The poems talk about how nature and people connect, the hard parts of understanding relationships, and how change and loss are sure to happen. Using language that makes you feel and a great ability to see things clearly, Williams asks readers to think about life's little details and the emotions we feel inside.
The Tempers
By William Carlos Williams
Explore a world of intense emotions and vivid imagery, where love, loss, and the beauty of nature intertwine.
Summary
About the AuthorWilliam Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my 'case' to work up. It called for a poetry such as I did not know, it was my duty to discover or make such a context on the 'thought.'" Some of his best known poems, "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow", are reflections on the everyday. Other poems reflect the influence of the visual arts. He, in turn, influenced the visual arts; his poem "The Great Figure" inspired the painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth. Williams was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962).
William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my 'case' to work up. It called for a poetry such as I did not know, it was my duty to discover or make such a context on the 'thought.'" Some of his best known poems, "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow", are reflections on the everyday. Other poems reflect the influence of the visual arts. He, in turn, influenced the visual arts; his poem "The Great Figure" inspired the painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth. Williams was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962).
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