Having been presented the prestigious Bollingen Prize award in 1953, William Carlos Williams has rightfully earned his prominent spot in the literary world. He was born to immigrant parents, Puerto Rican native Raquel Helen Williams and English father, William George Williams. With William’s mixed ancestry and tightly bonded family, Williams grew up surrounded by a mixed ancestry of close relatives. One might think that being born to first generation immigrant William Carlos Williams lived an impoverished life, but that was not the case. Instead, Williams lived an affluent life traveling through Europe as a child and attending the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine as an adult. There he broadened his knowledge of the medical world …show more content…
In college, Williams was in a “love triangle” with Charlotte Herman and William’s younger brother, Edgar. However, this abruptly ended when the brothers asked Herman to choose between them, and she picked the younger Williams, Edgar. Quick to the rebound, William Carlos Williams decided to marry Herman’s younger sister, Florence. Florence Herman, born April 18th, 1890 in Manhattan, New York was of German and Norwegian origins, and although neither of the two were in love, they happily married in 1912 (cite). Over the course of four years, they had two children together, William Eric Williams, born on January 7th, 1914, and Paul Williams, born in 1916 (cite). They soon settled into domestic life in Rutherford, New Jersey near his parents’ …show more content…
Here, Williams was introduced to the systematic study of poetry and works of John Keats and Walt Whitman by his English teacher William Abbott. During college, Williams’ friend Ezra Pound acted as Williams’ muse. Pound’s abstract form of writing freed Williams from the idealistic, boxed writing he developed and held him to be more creative, authentic, and spontaneous. Pounds honest and blunt criticism of Williams’ work led Williams to work continuously on writing. Williams’ friend Charles Demuth also inspired Williams’ writing. Demuth’s painting inspired imagery and fluidity in Williams’ poems. Williams’ profession in Medicine also affected his poetry. He often wrote about the struggles and characteristics of his patients and featured a doctor as the protagonist of the
The author was born in Washington D.C. on May 1, 1901. Later, he received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College where he studied traditional literature and explored music like Jazz and the Blues; then had gotten his masters at Harvard. The author is a professor of African American English at Harvard University. The author’s writing
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film music. On the one side there are the purists, who cry foul at the piecing together of
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” Clive Staples Lewis, known as C.S. Lewis, was a popular Irish author, famous for his Christian works, especially “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Throughout his novels, Lewis enlightened his readers with his views about faith. Although his novels were revolved around Christianity, Lewis was not always a believer. There were many things that influenced Lewis as a writer, but the most significant were his love of fantasy, his fascination with mythology, and his Christian beliefs.
Williams, William Carlos. “The Use of Force.” The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. Ed. Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper. 10th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 501-03. Print
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an autobiography of Frederick Douglass which depicts the hardships and abuse he witnessed and felt as a slave, gives the reader insight into what it was like to be a slave in America. The type of slavery Frederick Douglass endured as an in-house slave for many years in Maryland was not as harsh or difficult as being a slave in another state such as Tennessee which is farther away from the North, or on a different plantation being used as a field hand. Frederick Douglass had the luxury of living in the city for a while, where “a slave is almost a freeman, compared with those on a plantation” and where “there is a vestige of decency” and “a sense of shame” which makes the city slave owners kinder, since they do not want to seem like an unkind slave owner to their non-slave owner neighbors. Even with this fact in mind, the reader is still able to understand the types of punishments that occurred, how the slaves were treated, and what it was like to live life as a slave because of the detail that Frederick Douglass writes in his book about the experiences he went through all those years that he was a slave and what it was like to become a free man.
Hank Williams was arguably the most influential country music star of all time. Though his life of fame was short-lived, his legend continues to live among millions of fans. Hank was the first legendary country music singer, and he was an innovator of his time. Hank helped country music spread from the rural south to other parts of the nation. Hank was launched to fame with many songs such as “Your Cheatin Heart,” “Jambalaya,” and “Cold, Cold Heart.” The legacy of Hank Williams continues to influence country music fans worldwide.
Kofi Annan (1938), a former secretary-general once said, “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” Knowledge is a source for progress and a tool for power. In his story as a slave, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass, a boy born into slavery, learns how to read and write. As a child, Douglass had no knowledge about his age, the date, or his biological father. During his early childhood, he had little to no contact with his mother. Soon after she died, he had no choice but to work on the plantation as a slave for the rest of his life without knowing his family. Throughout his life as a slave, multiple menacing slaveholders hold back Fredrick Douglass from his freedoms. They keep him from knowing the truth about slavery and restrict him from all learning. Douglass’ uses the power of knowledge to gain his freedom.
William Carlos Williams once said, “It is not what you say that matters, but the manner in which you say it.”(Examiner) This is a view he often incorporated into his poetry. Williams’ purpose through writing poetry was not to teach a moral, but to convey that simple things can be beautiful. Although many of Williams’ poems show this beauty in simplicity, a few good examples are The Red Wheel Barrow, The Great Figure, and Young Sycamore.
Rose Isable Williams was born in Gulfport, Mississippi on November 19, 1909 and was older than Tennessee Williams. The siblings were inseparable d...
The late 1800’s were a tumultuous time for the United States, one consisting of both monumental gains, serious losses, and unsurprisingly, a number of vicious wars. Two of these wars in particular, are important, not to the history of the United States specifically, but to almost all world powers at the time, as they were prime examples of what would later be referred to as “The White Man’s Burden”. The first being the Spanish-American War, which mainly revolved around U.S. attacks on Spain’s colonies in the Pacific, and the demand for Cuban independence. Although it only lasted 10 weeks, the Cuban Republic, being the smaller fighting contingency, faced heavy losses, with casualties exceeding ten thousand. The ultimate result of this war was
William Blake is remembered by his poetry, engravements, printmaking, and paintings. He was born in Soho, London, Great Britain on November 28, 1757. William was the third of seven siblings, which two of them died from infancy. As a kid he didn’t attend school, instead he was homeschooled by his mother. His mother thought him to read and write. As a little boy he was always different. Most kids of his age were going to school, hanging out with friends, or just simply playing. While William was getting visions of unusual things. At the age of four he had a vision of god and when he was nine he had another vision of angles on trees.
"I am a novelist not an activist," he says, "but I think that no one who reads what I write or who listens to my lectures can doubt that I am enlisted in the freedom movement. As an individual, I am primarily responsible for the health of American literature and culture. When I write, I am trying to make sense out of chaos. To think that a writer must think about his Negroness is to fall into a trap."
The point was that Williams is trying to imagine an autonomous work of art that has a deep thinking to it, that is in some sense violence or personified, and this sexual desire to make the tragic something living, introduces to the world of the tragic the problem of death. Tennessee William explores a conflict through between desire and death. There ...
Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, he was the second of the Williams’ three children. By his own candid accounts, he described his family situation as being troubled, to put it lightly. His parent’s marriage was ordinarily tense, most likely as a result of his father’s alcoholism, physical intimidation and neglect. Thomas’s kindred troubles did not end with his parent’s unpleasantness, his beloved older sister, Rose, was institutionalized as a young woman and remained in care for the reminder of her life. He, himself suffered a mental breakdown, following his recuperation he moved to New Orleans and changed his name to Tennessee, this move invigorated his lifestyle and provided him with a new source of inspiration.