http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/william-carlos-williams Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:44:54 -0400 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:44:54 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/536/the-red-wheelbarrow-dissecting-the-minimal-masterpiece By Tristan Gans - William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” contains four two line stanzas in which the first line contains three words and the second contains one word with two syllables; it is also an awesome, awesome poem. With four stanzas the poem describes in humongous detail not just a wheelbarrow but a whole scene, a moment stuck in time. Williams’s form in the poem accomplishes this by using the strange break points to emphasize certain words and letting the words and their rhythms work for themselves. The first stanza, “so much depends/ upon” illustrates this... Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:29 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/536/the-red-wheelbarrow-dissecting-the-minimal-masterpiece http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/397/human-history-and-the-natural-world-in-the-poetry-of-william-carlos-williams-and-yusef-komunyakaa By Kristina S. Ten - Once readers take it the aspects of the work that exist outside the boundaries of a sheet of paper, it may quickly become evident how much one artist may learn, lend, and borrow to another. For poets, then, it is important to recognize the work of past writers and the contributions each have made to the human world and our understanding of each other and one another. It should come as no surprise that certain themes are recurrent through the work of centuries of poets, not only because intellectuals are inevitably influenced by those who came before them, but also because human history itself... Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/397/human-history-and-the-natural-world-in-the-poetry-of-william-carlos-williams-and-yusef-komunyakaa