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The Dynamism of Williams’ Poetry

In literary criticism, the dynamism of a text is typically dealt with in its semantic dimension. Halter’s idea of the tension between the referential and self-referential energies also explains the dynamism of Williams’ poetry in terms of words in multiple combinations and resultant polysemy. This semantic dynamism can be a useful tool, especially when it counts in perceptual meaning as well as conceptual one, to explain innovative literary texts that deny the logic of the linear narrative. Williams’ poetry, however, lies out of reach of the explanatory tool because for him the movement of a poem is physical rather than semantic or even than literary. The prosodic structure of his poetry embodies his dance, his sympathetic pulse by imagination while he is in contact with reality. The dance itself is the movement of his consciousness, which is however embodied physically into a series of waves of rhythm. It is the rhythm unit, ‘measure’ that enables his poetry to embody the movement of consciousness because its flexibility makes it precise and subtle enough to exactly render thoughts and feelings.