William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1883. Williams fell in love with poetry when he entered high school, where he started to write poetry in his free time. By the end of high school, Williams decided to pursue a career as both a writer and a doctor. He received his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he befriended Erza Pound, who will become a big influence of Williams' writing. Pound …showed first 75 words of 443 total…

…showed last 75 words of 443 total…falls into the ocean and drowns. This incident is written in such a way that it the read barely notices the death of Icarus but the new life budding from the springtime. So it turns out that Williams' past life definitely had a tremendous effect on the his poem topics and styles. In addition to that there has been some major events during the time that Williams was writing Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.