Titlebook: William Carlos Williams and the American Poem; Charles Doyle Book 1982 Charles Doyle 1982 America.poem.science and technology

Affection

,,length the end of .. Many critics (Randall Jarrell and Marianne Moore among them) have found each successive book less satisfactory than its predecessor. Some of these critics perceive in . a lifting of the poem, but even Williams himself was forced to see, with its publication, that for a poem like

Nomogram

,‘The Odorless Flower’,he poem after he had apparently finished . in 1951. . (1954) and . (1955), the two books which preceded . consist almost entirely of poems in the three-tiered line, the measure he believed he had always been searching for (but which he modified in various ways for much of the work in his final book,

callous

無法解釋

,,appy!)’. In the same set of drafts (., 185) he insists in one place that ‘The Whole Poem is / . / … ’ describing it in another as a somewhat long episodic poem’. Episodic it is, as he himself came to recognize, but paradoxically . its ‘single effect’, the rendering of flux.

Dappled

,,e theme of ‘Beautiful Thing’ which pervades the book. In tension with the parallel ‘search for the redeeming language’ and for love. is man’s ambivalent response to beauty, his urge to possess and destroy it. Thus beauty is set over against the destructive elements.

Dendritic-Cells

,,is set mockingly as ‘An Idyl’,. including two traditional English pastoral figures, Corydon and Phyllis, Corydon being a lesbian whom Dr Paterson rivals for Phyllis’s favours.. Phyllis, for her part, is unable to respond to any man sexually.

hemoglobin

,, ., ‘there can be no end to such a story’ (., 7) in the terms he had laid down for himself in Books I–IV. As this statement shows, he saw a qualitative difference between Book V and the earlier books.

入會

Towards Objectivism, Whittemore sees them as only a relative rise in a twelve-year long depression which continued from 1917 to 1929.. year of this, 1927/28, was a period of agreed separation from Flossie, Mrs Williams, and in the background of . exists a dark, savage-minded journal titled ‘Rome’, which Williams kept on his 1924 six-month European sabbatical.

織布機

Poem as Machine,articularly if . is regarded as a watershed rather than a further move forward. If, however, our concern is ‘the American poem’, the fiction of the 1930s and 1940s is not pertinent in the way that . and even . certainly are.

暴露他抗議

: the First Stages,ded for that poem appear in . and .. To Pound in 1936 Williams spoke of ‘that magnum opus I’ve always wanted to do: the poem PATERSON’ (., 163). Nearly a decade earlier, in The Simplicity of Disorder’ (., 94) he implied the planning of a long poem.