One of the main themes in William Carlos Williams's poetry is to pursue a fresh life-force which makes all things moving alive, and the natural stream of its energy. Williams was in pursuit of penetrating all obstacles and communicating with each other truly through inter- penetration. With this theme he produced the poetics of 'process'. In the thematic aspect, the poetics of process seeks after the energy of life which refuses the typical completion and comes back to the beginning continuously, and in the formal aspect, open form or open text which includes the dispersal of various genres and of fragmental materials.This paper looks upon Williams' poetic characteristics as the poetics of process and in this respect tries to reread his long poem, Paterson. It probes especially the themes on dispersal, metamorphosis, and recurrence to the beginning among several themes which can prove the poetics of process. And it focuses on the structure of the poem and the method which deal with fragments with various genres.
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