William Carlos Williams
Comments & Themes
Study Questions. You can reflect and write a paper on the following topics:
- The poetics of the ordinary.
- "The Widow's Lament in Spring" and Chinese influence
- Compare William's "Portrait of a Lady" with Pound's "Portrait d'une Femme" and Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady".
- How does Williams renew the love lyric?
- William's experimentalism and cinematic technique.
- The motif of spring in Williams's "Spring and All" and Eliot's WL.
- Myth and ordinary objects of everyday life.
- Poetry and technology.
- Williams and Tradition.