WilliamCarlosWilliams

 small cities, immigrants, and workers
 * __BIOGRAPHY__ **
 * Born in Rutherford, New Jersey in the year 1883
 * Died in the year 1963
 * Began to write in high school
 * Attended high school at Horace Mann High School
 * Made the decision in high school to become a writer and a doctor
 * Received M.D. from University Of Pennsylvania
 * Was a practicing doctor
 * __FAMOUS POEMS__**
 * This is just to say
 * The red wheelbarrow
 * Spring and all
 * The Dance
 * Poem (as the cat)
 * __INFLUENCES__**
 * Dadism
 * Cubism
 * __HONORS__**
 * National book award, 1950
 * Pulitzer Prize, 1963
 * __STYLE__**
 * Imagist
 * uses vivid imagery and strong, simple language
 * free verse
 * line over sentence
 * wishes to speak like an American within an American context of
 * reflect rhythm of everyday speech
 * drew subject matter from ordinary surroundings
 * presented scenes of ordinary life without comment