Comments & Themes

Study Questions. You can reflect and write a paper on the following topics:

• The poetics of the ordinary.

• “The Widow’s Lament in Spring” and Chinese influence

• Compare William’s “Portrait of a Lady” with Pound’s “Portrait d’une Femme” and Eliot’s “Portrait of a Lady”.

• How does Williams renew the love lyric?

• William’s experimentalism and cinematic technique.

• The motif of spring in Williams’s “Spring and All” and Eliot’s WL.

• Myth and ordinary objects of everyday life.

• Poetry and technology.

• Williams and Tradition.