Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!
Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad! - fact Summary
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William Carlos Williams, who practiced as a physician among working-class and immigrant communities, channels those observations here. In free verse the poem stages a blunt encounter between a humiliated laborer and a resentful speaker. It links daily indignities to shattered hopes and collective brooding, arguing that dreams both wound and sustain people facing social inequality. The voice shifts from accusation to weary reflection on pride and fate.
Read Complete AnalysesYou sullen pig of a man you force me into the mud with your stinking ash-cart! Brother! --if we were rich we'd stick our chests out and hold our heads high! It is dreams that have destroyed us. There is no more pride in horses or in rein holding. We sit hunched together brooding our fate. Well-- all things turn bitter in the end whether you choose the right or the left way and-- dreams are not a bad thing.
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