Paterson (poem)
- Paterson (poem)
"Paterson" is a
poem by influential modern American poetWilliam Carlos Williams .The poem is composed of five books and a fragment of a sixth book. The five books of "Paterson" were published separately in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958, and the entire work was published as a unit in 1963. This book is considered to be Williams' epic. Williams' book "In the American Grain" is claimed to be "Paterson's" abstracted introduction involving a rewritten American history. It is a poetic monument to, and personification of, the city of
Paterson, New Jersey . However, as a whole the three main topics of the poem are Paterson the Man, Paterson the City, and Identity. The theme of the poem being centered in an in-depth look at the process of modernization and its effects.Composition
Williams saw the poet as a type of reporter, who relays the news of the world to the people. He prepared for the writing of "Paterson" in this way:
While writing the poem, Williams struggled to find ways to incorporate the real world facts obtained through his research into the poem. On a worksheet for the poem, he wrote, "Make it factual (as the Life is factual-almost casual-always sensual-usually visual: related to thought)". Williams considered, but ultimately rejected, putting footnotes into the work describing some facts. Still, the style of the poem allowed for many opportunities to incorporate factual information, such as in the letters received by Dr. Paterson. [Bollard (1975), p. 320] Williams, in fact, used portions of his own correspondence with the American poets
Marcia Nardi andAllen Ginsberg in "Paterson".References
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