William Carlos Williams has more followers than W.B. Yeats or T.S. Elliot, he has taken poetry to a new level of literature. In Williams poem “Tract,” he calls out the taboo that surrounds death and the process of the funerals and burial. Williams poem “Tract” presents a new idea of what  the process of death should look like and represent. He say’s “Let it be weathered—like a farm wagon—“ (line 11) in this line Williams breaks down the idea of a hearse into a less fabricated idea of carrying the body of the deceased. He is not making death morbid, but instead making it simple and more realistic. Why put on a parade for the dead, when really “Some common memento is better,/ something he prized and is known by:/ his old clothes—a few books perhaps—“ (lines 36-38) in these lines he takes the idea of the deceased individual and says instead of dressing them up for others, dress them up for them. Let the deceased truly be seen as the individual they once were.