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Essay on William Carlos Williams's use of Imagism in To a Poor Old Woman
William Carlos Williams, the kindly doctor from New Jersey, was a poetic innovator. He was part of the Imagist movement that flourished in the first two decades of the 20th century. Imagist poets were concerned with using brief specific details to create word images. As an imagist poet, Williams does not present the entire picture, instead, he focuses his poetic vision on a very precise scene.
An image poem describes a very specific image or moment in time. Continuing to experiment with new techniques of meter and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people................
