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Williams’ Liberation of Words

For Williams, poetry needs to be real and to avoid the form of a story that represents and thus conceals reality. For poetry to be real, he asserts, its words must be liberated by getting tuned exactly to a fact, a particular reality, and thereby assume the reality of the fact. A fact is the pulse wave arisen among particular objects, which is a local aspect of the universal process of the energy transfer of nature. A poet therefore perceives and experiences the fact by participating in the process of nature through sympathy with those objects. Words can be tuned exactly to a fact by being organized into a design instead of a story and a traditional metrical form. Being a flexible structure of details and measures, a design is the replacement of both the strict forms. Words then work as words themselves free and dynamized, and with the reality given by the fact, dynamically move in rhythm with its wave and engender meaning in accordance with it. The liberation of words leads to that of facts and that of humans as well. Freed words reveal facts concealed by stories, enabling humans to directly contact them.