The Yachts -- WCW

This poem, unlike many of Williams' early poems, has a lot more meaning than just the stark imagism in the poem. The yachts represent the wealthy upper-class of American society, while the crews that get tossed around in the storm represent the working/lower classes of the society Williams lived in. In this poem, there are multiple layers of meaning, which we have not seen in many other Williams poems before this time. This is one of the poems that clearly defines the break between his early poems and his later poems that actually have meaning behind the words.