Three times in William Carlos Williams' poem "The Widow's

Last updated: 7/17/2022

Three times in William Carlos Williams' poem "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" the widow says "today" -- indicating A. Williams' beliefs that the here and now is more important than what once was. B. that Williams wrote the poem in one day. C. the widow's focus on her woes "today" and her forgetting of her former "joy."