He grew up in Lawrence, Kansas.
He was a major leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
He was a poet of the people.
He was more than just a poet; he was a writer in almost any genre you can think of.
He was rebellious, breaking from the black literary establishment.
He was a world traveler.
<span> I will discuss William Carlos William’s poem “Raleigh Was Right.” I really enjoy this poem. I feel that it speaks of the modern-mindset. Instead of frolicking through the fields of flowers and trying to absorb the spirit of nature, Williams offers that nature provides no peace; nature is not free from the world around it. The idea of nature somehow resembling a hope that counterpoises the modern lifestyle reminds me of Ragnarok (Nordic mythology); after Ragnarok (in Christian mythos, the Apocalypse or Doomsday) Lif and Lifthrasir (Adam and Eve) emerge from a forest—or great tree Yggdrasil—unscathed to repopulate the earth. In this case, nature provides a protection from the mayhem of even the gods. Getting back on track, Williams explains that nature doesn’t offer this pure protection from nature. He writes, “do not believe that we can live / today in the country / for the country will bring us no peace” (18-20). The negation in lines 18 and 20 offer a sense of hopelessness—a loss of hope in nature.</span>
The correct answer is free verse.
Free verse is any poem that doesn't rhyme, and that doesn't have a regular meter. Rhyming couplets consist of groups of two lines whose ending words rhyme, iambic pentameter (the kind of rhyming that Shakespeare used) has 10 syllables per line that deal with stressed and unstressed syllables, and haikus are poems of three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables, respectively.