Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 William Carlos Williams and His Poetry 1.2 A Review of William Carlos Williams' Poetry 1.3 Major Arguments of Thing Theory Chapter 2 Man and Things：Williams' Poetic Exploration of Thingness 2.1 The Keatsian Era：Transcending the Romantic Delirium of Man-Thing Dichotomy 2.2 The Anxiety of Influence：Rethinking the Imagist Doctrine of Directness 2.3 A New World Naked：Plunging into the Coexistence of Man and Things Chapter 3 Ideas and Things：The Generation of Ideas via Things 3.1 New Knowledge：Physicality of Things Perceived through Innocent Attention 3.2 Contact：Authenticity of Things Sublimating Locality into Universality 3.3 Imagination：The Intermediary Interacting Meaning and Things Chapter 4 Words and Things： lti-Dimensional Experi-mentation on Materiality of Things 4.1 Shape of Things：Williams' Manipulation on Visual Texts 4.2 Power of Things：Williams' Activation of Poetic Vitality 4.3 Rhythm of Things：Williams' Innovation of a New Measure 4.4 Form of Things：Williams' Experiment of Verse Genres Chapter 5 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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