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William Carlos Williams refutes the American Dream through his works revolving around America and how it has this false pretense of the American Dream, using worn out characters and scenery, and language that emphasizes America’s mistakes and misunderstanding of the American Dream.

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William Carlos Williams also uses scenery and other components to his poems to create the tone and mood he wants. This includes rapid scene changes with deep meaning. “Lifeless in appearance, sluggish--dazed spring approaches—They enter the new world naked,--cold, uncertain of all--save that they enter.” (Lines 15-19)The poem Spring and All shows readers a dying and bare landscape for scenery. The poem starts with this type of scenery and quickly switches to an imaginative spring. This displays the view of how human and nature are pretty detached from each other. It highlights America’s difficulty to see that if they separate human nature from world nature they would be able to see what it really takes to achieve the American Dream.

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If when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,-
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
"I am lonely, lonely,
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades,-

Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?

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spring and all [by the road to the contagious hospital]

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Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]

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If when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely, I was born to be lonely, I am best so!"

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The theme of the poem Paterson by William Carlos Williams is the decay of life in a small town which is representing American society. “Who because they neither know their sources nor the sills of their disappointments walk outside their bodies aimlessly for the most part, locked and forgot in their desires-unroused.” (Part 1) This explains how America has completely lost track and sight of what the American dream is. Going through life aimlessly without structure or guidance, society has no vision of America’s goals and dreams. The poem Paterson displays the meaning of achieving the American Dream. With William Carlos Williams's second goal being to create a new, complete, American culture; This poem captures this idea. By showing what it takes to achieve the city’s dreams and goals progressively throughout each part of this poem.

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William Carlos Williams’s works revolve around America and how it has this false pretense of the American Dream. In some of his poems he refers to America as a woman; He explains how society at that time is using America for its own good, not thinking of the consequences that come with their actions. “devil-may-care men who have taken--to railroading--out of sheer lust of adventure—” (Line 12) The poem To Elsie by William Carlos Williams uses dramatic language to show America’s broken remarks for the American Dream. This creates a very dramatic tone for the audience and poem, it displays America’s desire for lust and passion with things they do not need. It also shows how America has it’s false pretense of The American Dream.

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The pure products of America

mountain folk from Kentucky

or the ribbed north end of

with its isolate lakes and

valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves

devil-may-care men who have taken

out of sheer lust of adventure-

and young slatterns, bathed

to be tricked out that night

from imaginations which have no

peasant traditions to give them

sheer rags-succumbing without

under some hedge of choke-cherry

which they cannot express-

Unless it be that marriage

with a dash of Indian blood

will throw up a girl so desolate

that she'll be rescued by an

sent out at fifteen to work in

some doctor's family, some Elsie-

brain the truth about us-

ungainly hips and flopping breasts

and rich young men with fine eyes

as if the earth under our feet

and we degraded prisoners

to hunger until we eat filth

while the imagination strains

going by fields of goldenrod in

the stifling heat of September

It is only in isolate flecks that

and adjust, no one to drive the car

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To Elsie by William Carlos Williams | Poetry Foundation

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The pure products of America mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves devil-may-care men who have taken out of sheer lust of adventure- and young slatterns, bathed to be tricked out that night from imaginations which have no