Interest in the past in William Carlos Williams' selected poems

الملخص EN

William Carlos Williams is a romantic poet that has been influenced by the most pioneers of Romanticism.

His poetry is rife with the utilizing of the distinct features of Romanticism.

One of these features is the interest in the past that the poet makes use in several poems.

So, the present paper tries to shed light on this feature and how it is exploited by the poet.

It specifically tries to answer the following question: How William Carlos employed the interest in the past in his poetry? In order to achieve the aim of the study and answer the question raised above, selected lines from the poems of William Carlos are analyzed and commented on.

The study has concluded that Williams has reflected a strong interest in the past especially in the Oriental culture, and the Hellenic literature.

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