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William Carlos Williams Spring And All
William's work as a doctor and the symbolic images of "Spring and All"

William Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. He was a poet, novelist and a doctor, and worked hard throughout his life. He was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. He had his own techniques and I just finished reading "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams. I realized that Williams also used dashes in his poems just like Emily Dickinson used in her poetry. I also liked how Williams used contrasts between winter and spring, sickness and health and death and birth.
In the first stanza he pointed out that he was standing by the contagious hospital. The word "Contagious" means hospital The first stanza was almost

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