William's father, William George Williams, was an English Episcopalian (Longman 1). William's father never became an American because using his British papers made trips he frequently made to South America easier. He did not go to church much but instead went to seances with his wife (Williams 15). When he was near death, he appeared in a dream of William's. In this dream William saw who he thought was his father dying. When he realized that his father was not dead, his father spoke to him and said, " You know all that poetry you're writing? Well, it's no good" (Williams 15).

William's mother, Raquel Helene Rose Hoheb, was mentally unstable and had psychotic episodes during times of emotional stress. Most of these episodes happened at home, but she had an episode at Sunday school while she was playing the piano. William was extremely embarrassed by it. During these episodes she would point to someone to hol

grip down and begin to awaken

with dead, brown leaves under them

He couldn't enjoy the bliss of winning of the Pulitzer Prize because he died on March 4, 1963. (Longman 4) He had died in Rutherford, the same town he had been born in and had lived in all of his life.(Holland 83)

dazed spring approaches-

By the road to the contagious hospital

stuff of bushes and small trees

William was a playful child and played with friends and relatives. When William was about ten he was playing with his cousins with a toy cannon. They used gunpowder to shoot the canon. During one fire the powder did not seem to light correctly. William looked inside to see what went wrong. Suddenly the powder lit and he was blasted powder into William's face and confined to bed for several days. He often got into mischief with his neighborhood friends.

"William Carlos Williams is recognized today as having become one of our greatest contemporary poets (Wagner 3)." Williams is a poet whose work is not categorized very easily and has little terminology to describe it. This may be the reason that people consider his poetry good for the wrong reasons (Wagner 3). Williams' poetry has a compassionate love for humanity and is warm in nature (Kunitz 1090). When referring to America one said "No poet has written of it with such a combination of brilliance, sympathy, and experience, with such alertness and energy (Kunitz 1090)."

All along the road the reddish

cold, uncertain of all

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