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‘Poem’ by William Carlos Williams is a perfect imagist poem that focuses on a cat’s movements. The poem details, in characteristically brief and exacting details, the movements of a cat. It climbs over a jam closet and then down into a flower pot.
‘ The Widow’s Lament in Springtime ’. Like his fellow American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams sometimes adopted the voice of a female character in his poems, and this poem is a quietly moving example of Williams’s direct, imagistic style applied to the dramatic monologue.
Women are very central images in Williams' writing, not just in his early work or that of his fifties, but throughout the entire body of work written over a period of 50 years. As many critics have remarked, women were for Williams a major source of poetic tension, inspiration, and creativity.
In `Portrait of a Woman in Bed' (1917), trying on a female persona, he draws an admiring portrait of the slatternly Polish peasant, Mrs Robitza, a querulous, defiant cook willing to cast her children off to fend for themselves or to let society take care of them.
abstract | This article assesses how an interrogation of William Carlos Williams’s use of the female body as an imagistic image can reframe discussions of the role of the woman in his aesthetics. Through an analysis of four moments during a medical encounter with a female patient in his oeuvre—“Comedy Entombed: 1930,” “The Girl
His devotion to understanding his country, its people, its language—"the whole knowable world about me"—found expression in the poem's central image, defined by Whittemore as "the image of the city as a man, a man lying on his side peopling the place with his thoughts."
‘The Young Housewife’ by William Carlos Williams envisions a few moments in the life of a lonely woman confined to her home. This poem by William Carlos Williams is emblematic of the clarity and suggestiveness of his poetry.
