William Carlos Williams

A gathering of people can be a beautiful event with all the commotion and energy that rushes. As people move together, the French poet Charles Baudelaire felt a passion and “intoxication” for the crowed streets of Paris. However, crowds can be dangerous. In Williams Carlos Williams’, “At the Ball Game,” he explores the movement and reactions of the crowd. This poem appears like it was chiseled out of granite; for it is so sculptured and …

…Ball Game” relates to Mark Twain’s “Huck Finn” as Twain describes society in chapter 22. “Then there was a racket of ripping and tearing and smashing, and down she goes, and the front wall of the crowd begins to roll in like a wave.” Twain, as well as Williams, uses simplistic language to describe society in its uncultivated state, by doing so it gives the objects in the story a sense of accordance and conformity.