of what is observed by working with what he had, and therefore he sometimes improvised. Williams turned the connections of what he saw, what he understood, and the way he felt into poetry. One of the things that he did not fully understand and wanted to know more of in his young adult life was women. Williams’ work often contains carnal overtones, because he was always fascinated by a woman’s body. He credits this curiosity to the fact that he did not know a female intimately for his entire young life, and so, naturally, he was curious about who women were and what they looked like. He did not see his work as any less valuable because of its simplicity, candid openness or vigilant projection of imagism; he was able to acknowledge that there …show more content…
Williams himself was unique in the way that he sought to create American poems that were based on American experience, speech, and thought-poetry that was truly American. His poetry is filled with rhythm and colloquial speech that is exclusive to America; his poems would feel rough to the foreign tongue, and may even be confusing without proper American studies. Writers such as Charles Tomlinson and John Montague followed Williams’ example and wrote in a way that adapted their country’s own colloquial and rhythmic idiosyncrasies. Williams’ poems are heavily characterized by modern imagism, which goes to say that he often dismissed symbolism; he characterized the inherent objective of his poems as, "no ideas but in things," (Rosenthal). Williams was different from other poets in the way that he abandoned many of the traditions of poetry. His poems do not often rhyme, nor do they follow a typical stanza structure. To Williams, a poem simply had to be about something the poet found intriguing, a poem did not have to search the soul or confess a love. The intrigue could be expressed in any way, but Williams claimed to not believe in the contradiction of “vers libre” because something that is specifically made to be structured cannot be free. So, he allowed his poetry to be written in a way that could freely