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| Day 27 - William Carlos Williams  | In his life and his poetry, William Carlos Williams moved at cross purposes to his predecessors and peers: where Wallace Stevens was a Republican and an insurance executive, Williams was a socialist and a practicing doctor; he began his poetic career as a modernist after Eliot and an imagist after Pound, but broke with their constant references to classical and foreign literature and considered himself to be working entirely in an idiomatic American poetry. | | "The Red Wheelbarrow"
By far his most famous, most anthologized, and most often parodied poem, this is a model of imagistic brevity:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
| "Queen-Anne's-Lace"
From his 1921 collection entitled Sour Grapes, this poem begins as a comparison of a woman’s body and a field of wildflowers and soon moves through that poetic “optical” illusion so that the reader can no longer tell what is field and what is ground, what is positive and what is negative, where in the picture is presence and where is absence.
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