THE PINK SLIPPERS: AN ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS POEM THE THINKER THROUGH THE LENS OF IMAGISM

Imagism is a movement of poetry in which the practitioners confer a larger meaning with concrete imagistic words in their poems. One such poem in The Thinker by William Carlos Williams. The current research paper studies the poem with reference to the features of imagism put forward by Ezra Pound and F. S. Flint. It brings out how the image of the pink slippers suggest mundanity, search for meaning in life, happiness, and solace among several other things.