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    created from nothingness, worlds, the longed-for lands. xo to fall has fallen. ‘squirrels, in tre-caves, edge of squirrels. silence cena ser ve sky used tobe reflected x is an exposing. i, aalt ing on for remembrances. ing fort. and fragrances emerge, grappling with rocks, san element— that has been washed away. It stands restored, a bottomless sight. 5, in one mind, see at once ‘Sense of Things fallen, we turn rings. tsa if ‘ofthe imagination, savoit.! ‘choose the adjective this sadness without cause. become a minor house the lessened floors so badly needed paint. 1s old and slants to one side. failed, a repetition of men and flies. Jone 1. Krone Pech“ ew") 1950 Wain Cantos Winntans, 1163 Yet the absence of the imagination had Itself to be imagined. The great pond, ‘The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves, s lass, expressing silence Of a sot, silence ofa rat come out to see, ‘The great pond and its waste ofthe lilies, allthis Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge, Required, asa necessity requires, » 1954 A Quiet Normal Life His place, ashe sat and as he thought, was not In anything that he constructed, so fail, So barely it, so shadowed over and naught, As, for example, a world in which, like snow, He became an inhabitant, obedient 5 ‘To gallant notions onthe pat of cold. Iwas here. This was the setting and the time Of Year. Here in his house and in his room, In his chair, the most tranquil thought grew peaked And the oldest and the warmest heart was cut » By gallant notions on the part of night— Both late and alone, above the crickets’ chords, Babbling, each one, the uniqueness of its sound. “There was no fury in transcendent forms. But his actual candle blazed with artifice » WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 1883-1963 {modernist known for his disagreements with all the other modernist, William lcs Williams thought of himself as—and may well have been-—the most undet- ‘Sed poe of his generation. His reputation has rien dramatically since World War 4 younger generation of poets testified to the influence of his work on their 2 oF what poetry should be. The simplicity of his vese forms, the materof- ‘Sczgess ofboth his subject matter and his means of Seemed to bring Ge ang the oct wring bebveerthe wars, His ever continued into niet Winns Cantos Wanita Whi Cams the 1960, taking new directions as he produced, along with shorter Isic, his epic five-part poem Patenon ‘He was born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey a town neat the city of son. His maternal grandmother, an Englishwoman deserted by her husband, come to America with her son, married again, and moved to Puerto Rico. Her son-—Willams’sfather—married a woman descended on one side from Frengh Basque people. on the other from Dutch Jews. This mix of origins always fsck rated Wills and made him fel that he was diferent fom other people. fee the family moved to New Jersey, Williams's father worked 2s a salesman for a perfume company in chldbood his father was often avay fom home, and the two Ywomen—mother and grandmother—nere the most important adalts to him. ‘Thioughout Williams's poetry the figure of woman asan earth mother, whom men require for completion and whose reason for being isto supply that completeness, appears, pethaps originating in that early dependence Except for a year in Europe, Williams attended local schools and entered the School of Dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania deel ater graduating kom high School. He soon switched to medicine, however. In college he met and became fiends with Ezra Pound, two yeas younger than he but much more self-assured, Hilda Doolittle, later to become known 3s the poet H. and the painter Charles Demuth. These friendships did much to intensify an interest in waiting poets, and even ashe completed his medical work, interned in New York Cty, and dd post sraduate study at Leipig, Germany, he was reconeciving his commitment to med- teine asa means of selesupport in the more important enterprise of becoming a poet. Although he never lest his sense that he was a doctor in ord tobe a post, his patents knew him 36 dedicated old-shioned physician, who made house calls, listened to people's problems, and helped ther through lifes criss, Pediat peas his speci ad in the coi of hi carer he deleted oer Wo thos ‘In 1912, after internship and study abroad, Williams marred his faneée of several years, Florence Herman. Despite strain in ther relationship caused by Williams's continuing interest in other women, the marriage lasted and became, toward the end of Williams's life, the subject of some beautiful lve poetry, includ ing Asphodel, that Greeny Flower. The couple setiled in Rutherford where Wil. Jiams opened his practice. Except fora trip to Burope in 1924 when he saw Pound and met James Joyce, among others, ad trips fr lectures and poetry readings later inhis career, Wiliams remained in Rutherford ll hs lif, continuing his medical practice until por health foreed him to retire. Involved in his medical practice by day, he wrote at night, and spent weekends in New York City with friends who were writers and artts—the avantgarde painters Marcel Duchamp and Franc Piabia, the poets Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens, and others. At theie gatherings he acquired a reputation foe his outspoken hestility to mest of the “isms” of the day. | His earliest poetry was deeply marked by the influence ofthe English Romantic zat fon. Keats and guy slowly dil he chia icawn aie, which emerged Cleary in the landmaf& volume of mixed prose and poetry Spring and AU (1923). (One can sce inthis book that the gesture of staying at home was more fr him than a practical assessment of his chances of elf-support. Interested, ike his rend Ezta Pound, in makings new kind of poetry, Williams was also vi his aims as Pound was not. He wanted cake American contest_One

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