William Carlos Williams

LitCharts guides for works by William Carlos Williams

Explore LitCharts poetry guides for works by William Carlos Williams. Each guide offers line-by-line analysis, exploration of poetic devices, and helpful resources for studying William Carlos Williams's poetry.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is a poem by one of the foremost figures of 20th-century American poetry, William Carlos Williams, first published in Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems in 1... view guide

Raleigh Was Right

"Raleigh Was Right" is a free verse poem by William Carlos Williams, first published in 1940. It responds to Sir Walter Raleigh's 400-year-old poem "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," which itself... view guide

Spring and All (By the road to the contagious hospital)

William Carlos Williams's “Spring and All,” first published in his 1923 collection of the same title, reflects on the season of spring as a time of renewal. Spring’s arrival, in this poem, is not s... view guide

The Red Wheelbarrow

"The Red Wheelbarrow," first published in 1923, is one of American poet William Carlos Williams's most famous poems, despite being rather cryptic: it consists of a single sentence describing a red ... view guide

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

Published in 1921 in the collection Sour Grapes, "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" is a study of grief and loss. Its speaker, recently widowed after 35 years of marriage, describes a springtime sc... view guide

This Is Just To Say

William Carlos Williams published "This Is Just To Say" in 1934. In the poem, the speaker confesses to having sneakily eaten plums from an icebox (a kind of precursor to the modern refrigerator). ... view guide