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The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams

 
Summary: The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams is a poem that is about a firetruck that inspired the author to write about how the firetruck made him feel, see and hear the poem
 
Characters:
Speaker - The author is the speaker about the firetruck
 
Section 1:
  • The speaker finds himself in the city while it was raining and a firetruck comes to his attention
  • The "figure 5" was a significant call to thought and consciousness on the red color of a firetruck
  • There's a sense of urgency among the different sounds that the speaker hears
  • The sounds are distinct and directly rushed to the speaker's mind in the night
Other Notes:
  • This is an actual event that William Carlos Williams experiences in a big city
  • A capture of sound into imagery inspired an artist by the name of Charles Demuth to convert the sounds that William Carlos Williams heard that night into a painting
  • This poem is using synaestheisia to describe to the audience of the speaker's experience of sound with colors and imagery
 
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