William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1883. Williams was a poet who poems shined in the 1920’s through the 1940’s. William started out as a poet in the Imagist movement. Later on Williams started to write about poetry based around real life situations. His style of poetry was very influential. He became a mentor to many other young poets. In the poetry I have read you can very well tell that he likes to write about real life situations.

“To A Poor Old Woman”

munching a plum on

the street a paper bag

of them in her hand

They taste good to her

They taste good

to her. They taste

good to her

You can see it by

the way she gives herself

to the one half

sucked out in her hand

Comforted

a solace of ripe plums

seeming to fill the air

They taste good to her

The above poem is the poem I chose in class. The repetition in this poem added to the experience in reading this poem. When reading the repeated lines it helped me paint a picture of an old lady really tearing up some plums because she was hungry. This poem is very real because in real life today you see homeless devouring food when they receive it and really getting into it.

“This is Just to Say”

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

The above poem is my second poem I looked up from my poet. 

I enjoyed reading this poem especially because it was about plums

 once again. To me the tone is sort of humorous. Well when I got 

finished reading this I laughed. I thought of my own household 

because we always voluntarily eat each others food because we can’t resist.

            From reading several of William Carlos Williams’s poetry, his pieces of writings 

does show Americanism. The way his writings are structured and his literary devices

 he uses makes them American.