William Carlos Williams is a leader of the Modern Poetry movement with peers such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, but broke away from it to experiment more in his own style. He was extremely creative, playing with forms and styles of writing and not restricting himself to poetry, however, which he excelled at. The subjects of his poems were not always people, but specific images, especially momentary ones. Many of his poems start with the word "The," which indicates that the poem will describe whatever follows "The" in the title. Writing was his side career to being a doctor, which was more economical at the time. His writing takes on the analytical approach that must come from his other career in the way he is able to dissect anything down to a few, intense moments when he captures his reader and both the reader and the...