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Item by William Carlos Williams
Release Date
Sat Jun 01 1935
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William Carlos was born in 1883 in the United States. He is a modernist poet who utilizes line breaks and stanza breaks to create pause and intonation in his poetry. He most famously did this with his poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (linked below). He is known for his “Objectivists, Modernism, Metaphysi...
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This, with a face
like a mashed blood orange
that suddenly
would get eyes
and look up and scream
War! War!
clutching her
thick, ragged coat
A piece of hat
broken shoes
War! War!
stumbling for dread
at the young men
who with their gun-butts
shove her
sprawling -
a note
at the foot of the page
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William-carlos-williams released Item on Sat Jun 01 1935.