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William Carlos Williams' Poem "The Red Wheelbarrow", 2006.
The paper describes the way William Carlos Williams' poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" uses a simple battery of devices and basic vocabulary to convey a multitude of thoughts and images.
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This paper explains that William Carlos William, in his poem "The Red Wheelbarrow", utilizes imagery, symbolism, simplistic structures and a free form style to illustrate the meaning of the poem in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The author points out that the meaning behind the picture created by this poem is left up to the reader to discover by looking for patterns in a deceptively simple sentence. The author underscores that, through these patterns, the readers rediscover the beauty in a simple wheelbarrow, a simple sentence and a simple poem. The paper concludes that the plain red wheelbarrow glistens by the end of the poem, in the calm following a storm, like the reader's glow of excitement after unraveling the mystery of the scene.
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"The structure of the poem is perhaps the most interesting characteristic of it. The simple vernacular is underscored by the structure. Because the sentence is broken into four stanzas, the reader is forced to go line by line, scrutinizing each syllable, looking for meaning. Each word was carefully chosen and packs a punch, as was the author's intention. There are relatively few words, which causes the reader to notice the author's word choice more than if the poem were longer. Additionally, the pauses between each stanza allow the reader to reevaluate the mental image they are creating, as explained previously."
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Poems by William Carlos Williams, 2005.
This paper discuss the poems "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams.
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This paper analyzes the poems "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams, which reflect domestic desire and the problems of intimacy that lie hidden within American suburbia. The author points out that Williams shows an abstracted form of simile, allusion and symbolism to reflect the frustrations of couples trying to live with each other in divided homes. The paper contends that, by actively revealing his own lack of sexual fulfillment, Williams is able to convey these messages in these simply written, yet cryptic poems.
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"This poetical analysis explores the theme of domestic desire within the two poems: "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams. By revealing William's poetry related to domestic desire through simile, allusions and symbolism, one can learn why these two poems reflect isolation and the romantic problems within 20th century American suburbia. In understanding William's poems through the theme of domestic desire, one can assume unfulfilled sexual and romantic energies that reside within his verse. The poem "The Young Housewife" reflects the barriers and sexuality of the suburbs in the way that Williams present both the woman and the doctor in the poem."
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William Carlos Williams' "The Use of Force", 2006.
This paper interprets William Carlos Williams' short story "The Use of Force".
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This paper explains that, in his short story, "The Use of Force", William Carlos Williams examines the justifiable application of physical force. The author points out that all of the doctor's respect appears to go to Mathilda, the "damned little brat", who had the spunk and courage to resist him all along. The paper concludes that even an apparently mild-mannered country doctor can enjoy the passionate feeling of having a strong opponent and admire the resistance.
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"The narrator inquires about a sore throat and both parents explain that the child says "her throat don't hurt her." The slightly exasperated doctor wonders if they have actually looked and discovers that they have not. Mathilda will not cooperate, though, and the doctor tries to reason with her. Attempting lamely to help, the mother says, "Come on, do what he tells you to, he won't hurt you." The doctor is disgusted that the mother used the word "hurt" and he says "I ground my teeth in disgust" at the parents bungling attempts."
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William Carlos Williams' Short Stories, 2001.
A look at the antinomic forces in the short stories of William Carlos Williams.
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"Critics have characterized William Carlos Williams? short stories as ?terribly real?, exhibiting both ?bitterness and compassion.? Kenneth Rexroth gets closer to the matter, categorizing the stories as ?the completely realized real.? The stories depict a antinomic reality, he suggests, consisting of a combative coexistence between what is immediately apprehensible and a force lying ?behind the colored faces of phenomena.?:
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Advancements in Childbirth during the Time of William Carlos Williams, 2000.
A look at the improvements in childbirth practices in America at the turn of the 20th century.
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Childbirth, the natural process of how we are born, has evolved along with technological advancements to prolong lives, reduce pain, and decrease mortality rates through advancements in technology. William Carlos Williams, born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, dealt with issues of childbirth through the course of his life as a pediatrician. After becoming a pediatrician in 1910, he practiced medicine there for most of his life, and wrote poems and stories about his life as a country doctor. During the course of his life, society began paying close attention to childbirth as medicine and technology advanced.
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William Carlos Williams, 1994.
A brief biography of the poet/doctor and analysis of three of his poems "To A Poor Old Woman," "The Term" and "The Snow Begins".
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"William Carlos Williams, born in 1883 and died in 1963, was a major poet of his generation and one of the leading poets in the movement departing from traditional English practice, but Williams took his own road and tried to impart to his poetry a new substance and a violent new orientation. He began as early as 1912 by asking, "what was the measurable factor in language that can replace metrics as the basis for poetic composition?" For Williams, this question involved the whole essence of poetry:
Since he believed that experience does not objectively exist until it is embodied in language, the nature of that language--its ability to convey actuality without distorting it through the crippling biases of "literary" means--is all-important (Unger 403).
Williams had several concerns that were constant: 1) he wanted to..."
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Conflict and Irony in Williams, Carver and Baxter, 2007.
A review of conflict in the tales "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter, "The Use Of Force" by William Carlos Williams and "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver.
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This paper reviews and discusses "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter, "The Use Of Force" by William Carlos Williams and "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver. The paper focuses specifically on the use of irony to dramatize conflict in these three tales. According to the paper, conflict is the essence of all good storytelling.
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"William Carlos William's short story "The Use of Force" also ironically depicts someone who must be cruel, only to be kind. The conflict of the story centers on a young child with a fever, and the doctor who is trying to save the little girl. The irony of the story is that the doctor must examine the child's throat, but the child regards the doctor as an intruder, and the doctor must force himself, violently, upon the child, to help her live. Irony is also manifest in the child's perspective, because the child quite reasonably sees the strange man who wishes to look at her throat as a dangerous intruder. Her parents, filled with love for Mathilda, have not forced her to open her mouth. The medical professional, in contrast, is capable of some objectivity in the situation. He tries at first, like the parents, to coax her, but to no avail. "Such a nice man, put in the mother. Look how kind he is to you. Come on, do what he tells you to. He won't hurt you."
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"Red Scare or Red Menace?", 2004.
An analysis of "Red Scare or Red Menace?" by John Earl Haynes.
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A review of Haynes political work, which seeks to rectify deficiencies in the historiography of American anti-Communism. The paper points out that prior examinations have failed to accurately explain critical components of the opposition to Communism in the years after World War II. It shows how Haynes indicates that these works have misunderstood and incorrectly characterized the nature of anti-Communist activity. The paper specifies Haynes's four principal shortcomings in earlier depictions and explains them.
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"First, he asserts, many histories do not adequately establish the connection between the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and the espionage activities of the Soviet Union. Second, previous analyses have not described the significant links between pre-World War II antifascism and postwar anticommunism. Next, he charges, the accounts routinely fail to demonstrate the scope and diversity of sentiment against communism. Finally, prior works typically portray anticommunism as senseless and inscrutable. ?To make American anticommunism in the 1940s and 1950s historically explicable,? he writes, ?is the purpose of this book? (vii)."
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Form and its Relationship to Meaning in Poetry, 2006.
A review of the poems "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, focusing on form and structure and its connection to meaning.
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This paper examines two poems: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. The paper explains that both poems are dependant upon their form to transmit their meaning, mirroring and reflecting one another in the interplay of interpretive possibilities and authorial intentions. The paper points out that the strict formal structure of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" reflects the inevitability of death while amplifying the speaker's emotional experience, transcending the particular and engaging the universally human. The paper then looks at how "The Red Wheelbarrow" draws its formal structure from its object, re-presenting a complex image constructed from an interaction and synthesis of its components which resonates within the reader. The writer concludes that viewed as such, these poems illustrate the manner in which form is able to insinuate meaning into the events of life.
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"The four mentioned 'types' of men in the five middle stanzas of the poem, though they have unilaterally failed to 'lighten' the 'dark' with their brands of enlightenment, are exhorted to yet rage against death and not accept it inevitability. The words of 'wise men' could not spark understanding in the masses, the deeds of 'good' men could but 'dance' a moment upon the overwhelming waters of this dark world, and the 'wild' men embraced the light of the sun to merely 'grieve it on its way' ineffectually. The fifth stanza sees those 'grave men near death' whose perceptions are cleansed by their reality also being called upon to abandon their joyful acceptance of inevitable death ( a poignant reflection of the acceptance of natural cycles the traditional pastoral would embrace) and also rage against this diminishment of life. Such an imploration asks an inversion of the traditional associations of light and darkness in that it glorifies this 'rage' as the light which dispels the darkness of death, as opposed to the calm acceptance."
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"This is Just to Say"--Analysis of Criminality, 2006.
This essay based on an unbiased opinion of William Carlos William's poem "This is Just to Say"
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The author of this essay argues that the poem "This is Just to Say" seems simplistic on a first reading. The author further contends that on the contrary, with some leaps and bounds of the imagination, the reader can extract many criminal like ideas from within the text. He describes this poem encapsulating an apologetic theme, in which its verses are wrapped in many elements associated with William Carlos William's criminality.
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"It is true that many critics over the last hundred years have theorized and disputed the ambiguities associated with the works of William Carlos Williams. On the surface, "This Is Just To Say", one of Williams' most famous works, is a simple confession of wrong doing: the poet has eaten someone else's plums. As Peter Brooks has observed, Williams' poem is deeply concerned with questions of justice and criminality. Although the poet "confesses", however insincere, and illustrates several aspects of guilt; the demeanor in which the confession is delivered resists an element of closure. In short, Williams' poem "This Is Just To Say" is hardly case closed.
With an extremely innovative and unprecedented critical analysis of this simple apology, an onslaught of criminalistic elements can be withdrawn:
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
-1934 by William Carlos Williams
First time through this work, readers are often puzzled by the poem's simplicity. Many readers have a tough time grasping the fact that this poem, plainly read, is about somebody unsympathetically apologizing to another person for eating his/her plums. On the contrary, with some leaps and bounds of the imagination, one can extract many criminal like ideas from within the text. As previously stated, this poem encapsulates an apologetic theme; in which its verses are wrapped in many elements associated with author's criminality. As Brooks shows, Paul de Man's analysis of the circularity of confession reverses the cause/effect relationship usually associated with confession. According to de Man, it is not guilt that leads to confession, but confession that "creates the guilt that the act of confessing requires" ( Brooks 156)."
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Su Shi's Meditation on the Past at Red Cliff, 2005.
This paper discusses Su Shi's lyrical poem regarding the Red Cliff, using a translated piece from Stephen Owen's compendium.
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This paper provides a reflection on Su Shi's famous lyrical poem concerning the Red Cliff, and a mystical experience the author had there, with Daoist symbolism that may not be apparent immediately. The writer offers some discussion of the poet's life, and discusses what is implied by the poem's reference to an epic battle of the Three Kingdoms period. The writer explains that in Daoist view, the world is always changing, yet always the same, and one must go forwards, all the same.
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"Su Shi (1037-1101), known as scholar Su Dongpo, is considered the greatest of the Song dynasty authors, remembered for both classical and lyrical piece. He was most gifted in his ability to approach a large or formal subject and find within it something of pertinence to the reader's sensibility. For this reason, his poetry can appear unique and fresh to contemporary readers. Song classical poetry was meant for the educated classes, it lyrical works more popular contributions, but often including the classical tradition's fondness for reflective, philosophical pieces."
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"The Forgotten City", 2002.
A brief analysis of this poem by William Carlos Williams.
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This paper analyzes the contents and meaning of Williams' poem. It includes considering how the narrator feels about his observations of the town, the importance of the fact that a hurricane forced him to travel through the town, the suggestions that are made about the role of media in society, the significance of the title, and the meaning of the phrase "strange commonplace."
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"The narrator of the poem refers to an experience driving through the towns of New Jersey. He passes through what he calls "extraordinary places." His experience of the towns suggests that the viewing of this world is part of the process of him overcoming his jadedness. He constantly refers to the sights of this world in positive ways. He refers to the places as "extraordinary places, as vivid as any I ever saw." He also refers to "long, deserted avenues / with unrecognized names at the corners and / drunken looking people with completely foreign manners." While this last description is not necessarily a positive one, the poem has a mood of excitement about it. The impression is that these sights have opened the narrator's eyes and allowed him to really consider what he is seeing. In short, he is finding interest in what he sees. He also states that "a large body of water / startled me with an acre or more of hot / jets spouting up asymmetrically about it." "
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Carlos V, 2002.
The role of Carlos V in Spain.
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This paper discusses the religious beliefs as well as the remarkable services rendered by Carlos V to the people of the Spain. This research paper addresses the cardinal role played by Carlos V (1516- 1555) because of his efforts to unite and strengthen Spain.
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Ambiguity in Three Modernist Short Stories, 2006.
A look at "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams.
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This paper reviews three modernist short stories and looks at how ambiguous work is a significant mode of modernist art. The three stories this paper reviews are "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams.
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"Eudora Welty wrote her short story "A Worn Path" in 1941. It centers on "an old Negro woman" (795), as she makes her way slowly across the rural countryside toward the neighboring town of Natchez. It is a simple story, and told in a straightforward, matter-of-fact style. This simplicity however, is merely a veneer spread over innumerable underlying ambiguities. The canvas Welty paints at the outset is one of a stark frozen rural landscape. The only color that interrupts this cold early morning picture, is the bright red rag tied about the head of the main character: Phoenix Jackson. What is this old woman doing hobbling back and forth along a rural path in the middle of winter, in the early morning? This is a central question that essentially remains unanswered in any complete way.
Welty allows us to understand that there has been identical earlier journeys made by the old lady, as when Phoenix says to herself: "Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far [...] something always take hold of me on this hill - pleads I should stay" (795). This is the first of many passages that are conversations with herself. The author gives only the character's inner thoughts about things, thus leaving us deprived of any comfort in an objective reality. Phoenix is not a dependable witness by any means. She sees things symbolically, or historically or biblically, but rarely as things really are. Just as she has troubles finding her way through this landscape, so the reader also has trouble finding the truth or meaning of the narrative. "
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Carlos Fuentes and Freedom, 2005.
A review of Carlos Fuentes and his concept of freedom.
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This paper reviews the concept of freedom as defined by Carlos Fuentes, a novelist, essayist and travelling diplomat. According to this paper, Fuentes believes that without the quest for freedom, freedom would not exist.
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"Freedom is often a concept that is taken for granted, misunderstood, and, as Carlos Fuentes notes, is often defined for the citizens of the world by institutions that have no other ultimate interest but to limit the freedom that appears to be so fleeting. Novelist, essayist, and traveling diplomat, Carlos Fuentes' quotation on what freedom is inspires the reader to think about what freedom truly is. It envelops concepts familiar and new, traditional and rebellious, and in the end encompasses the multitudes of facets that have founded nations, inspired societies, and given rise to revolution. In the beginning of Fuentes' thought provoking quote, he notes that freedom is freedom based on people seeking it. This thought is comprised of two primary parts. First, without the quest for freedom, freedom would not exist. It is the process of striving for freedom that ensures that the concept continues to exist."
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