(Norton 302-303) Williams wrote primarily about idolized and eroticized women current and the state of America. Some example of such poetry are Portrait of a Lady, Queen-Ann’s Lace, and The Dead Baby. Like Frost, Williams was not blatantly pessimistic, but was rather indifferent I his poems. The imagery used by Williams is sat once clear and deep. The apparent meaning is not always that is meant, as is demonstrated in To Elsie. To me, it seems like Williams is the most Anti-Modernist of the four. He complains about the pessimism and obscenity of Eliot and the regionalism of Frost and he seems to forget that in his criticism of other works the essence of modernism is rebellion against
(Norton 302-303) Williams wrote primarily about idolized and eroticized women current and the state of America. Some example of such poetry are Portrait of a Lady, Queen-Ann’s Lace, and The Dead Baby. Like Frost, Williams was not blatantly pessimistic, but was rather indifferent I his poems. The imagery used by Williams is sat once clear and deep. The apparent meaning is not always that is meant, as is demonstrated in To Elsie. To me, it seems like Williams is the most Anti-Modernist of the four. He complains about the pessimism and obscenity of Eliot and the regionalism of Frost and he seems to forget that in his criticism of other works the essence of modernism is rebellion against