윌리엄 칼로스 윌리엄즈 후기 시 속의 피터 브뤼겔

Heavily influenced by a sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel and his paintings, Williams published a sequence of poems entitled “Pictures from Brueghel” in 1960. Williams writes a series of poems such as “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” “Peasant Wedding,” “The Hunters in the Snow,” etc. inspired by Brueghel’s paintings. Avoiding embellishment, Williams tries to select and recreate the diverse details of Brueghel’s paintings in ways that reflect their visual importance in these poems. Brueghel’s paintings stand as a model for Williams who turns away from objects to “humanity” in his later poems. As an elderly and experienced artist, Williams wants to write the poems possessing a “sense of inclusiveness without redundancy.” His vision of “inclusiveness” is summed up as his term of “The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image.” Recognizing Brueghel’s paintings as a “Recognizable Image,” Williams seeks to discover “the universal” in “the particular.” With his inclusive imagination, Williams creates the poems of striking shorter and sparer lines which are sharply distinguished from his earlier poems. Accordingly, the poems in “Pictures from Brueghel” feature the invisible details as well as the ellipses and extensions of various details in the paintings.