William Carlos Williams’s, Spring and All is very intriguing. I am not quite sure about what to make of this work as of yet, but so far, I like it a lot. Williams’s writing style is very refreshing. As a modernist poet, he seems to write exactly what he feels without fearing criticism from others. His work is ordered and very simplistic. He does not seem to be taken up with the use of long and complicated words like that of Pound or Eliot. His words are more short, beautiful and filled with simple and crisply described images. Williams from what I am observing seems to be inventing a new style of writing poetry. A style that does not consist of using elaborate words or references to history in order to make its point, but rather one that requires an individual using or having their imagination stimulated when reading his work. He places great emphasis on the imagination because he explains that in the imagination the author and the reader become one. He says in one of his proses that, “The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill. The imagination is supreme. To it all our works forever, from the remotest part to the farthest future, have been, are and will be dedicated,” and I think that Williams’s in this quote is trying to explain that our imaginations are like our own personal historical databases and reference center so when we read a work we must not be bombarded with references to the past but rather we must be stimulated to think about and investigate the past using our own imagination. In addition, I found the structuring of this book to be very whimsical and creative. The minor distractions are what further adds originality to his text and what keeps you engaged and alert. Throughout most of the beginning of this text, I noticed that Williams brought up the term “plagiarism” quite a few times. What does he mean by “The Traditionalists of Plagiarism,” is he referencing writers like Pound and Eliot? Given that Plagiarism is a form of copying is he in a way assuming, that writers like Pound and Eliot are copying from the writers that preceded them rather than honoring them when they choose to reference them in their works. Does Williams feel that the use of the imagination is far more advantageous and beneficial for the authors/readers than the use of tradition is? I get this feeling because he in a way states that the use of tradition stupefies the intelligence because it prevents an individual from demonstrating their personality and valuing life, while the imagination to Williams seem to do the complete opposite.