''in Just- '' Poem Analyzation What is the a year without spring? Spring is one of the most majestic occasions of the year. It is during the spring time when plants and flowers are blooming with heavenly colors and fragrant odors. In the spring, children dash around in their yards while letting out chuckles. They play games in the flawless weather during this perfect time of year. The sun's shine is more vivid than ever now that winter has passed weeks ago. Who would not want to reminisce this spectacular moment of life. In the poem "in Just-," E.E. Cummings creates a realistic instant of spring by using elements of imagery, alliteration, and tone to reveal that spring is more glorious when you look at it through a child's perspective. Cummings does this for the purpose that he appreciates individuals who apprehend with compassion and affection the beauty of spring (Smelstor, Marjorie). E.E. Cummings commences the poem with very clear, detailed imagery in order for the reader to visualize the whole poem as if they were in the stanzas them self . Cummings states in the poem ''when the world is mud/luscious the little lame balloonman/ whistles far and wee''(line 1-6). Cummings addresses the word mud-luscious (line 2) to make the reader understand the change of season from winter to spring. Now that the snow has melted it has turned the dirt into and abundant area of mud that through the eyes of a child would see this as something extraordinary and be in excitement for what it to come. The reader interprets the word, as an adolescent would say, to feel more like a child in the spring time. When ... ... middle of paper ... ... and wee and bettyandisabel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it's spring and the goat-footed ballonMan whistles far and wee Works Cited Beers, G. Kylene, and Lee Odell. "Poetry." Holt Literature & Language Arts. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2003. 413-14. Print. Brewton, Vince. "E.E. Cummings: A Biography." Web.b.ebscohost.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Feb. 2014. Smelstor, Marjorie. "E.E. Cummings." Web.a.ebscohost.com. N.p., Sept. 2006. Web. 8 Feb. 2014.< http://web.a.ebscohost.com/brc/detail?sid=cfe03813-34d6-486d-92e9-06dc440798b3%40sessionmgr4001&vid=1&hid=4109&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=b6h&AN=103331MSA10689830000067 >. http://www.easybib.com/export/html
A writer’s choice of nouns and verbs alters the feel and meaning of a poem. A prime expel of this fact is in the Crowder Collage literature book, on page even hundred seventy-three, more topics for writing, number two. I chose the poem “When the Time’s Toxins,” by Christian Wiman, for the exercise.
In “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why?” Edna St. Vincent Millay says that “the summer sang in me” meaning that she was once as bright and lively as the warm summer months. In the winter everyone wants to bundle up and be lazy, but when summer comes along the sunshine tends to take away the limits that the cold once had on us. She uses the metaphor of summer to express the freedom she once felt in her youth, and the winter in contrast to the dull meaningless life she has now. There are many poets that feel a connection with the changing of seasons. In “Odes to the West Wind” Percy Bysshe Shelley describes his hopes and his expectations for the seasons to inspire the world.
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For each seasonal section, there is a progression from beginning to end within the season. Each season is compiled in a progressive nature with poetry describing the beginning of a season coming before poetry for the end of the season. This is clear for spring, which starts with, “fallen snow [that] lingers on” and concludes with a poet lamenting that “spring should take its leave” (McCullough 14, 39). The imagery progresses from the end of winter, with snow still lingering around to when the signs of spring are disappearing. Although each poem alone does not show much in terms of the time of the year, when put into the context of other poems a timeline emerges from one season to the next. Each poem is linked to another poem when it comes to the entire anthology. By having each poem put into the context of another, a sense of organization emerges within each section. Every poem contributes to the meaning of a group of poems. The images used are meant to evoke a specific point in each season from the snow to the blossoms to the falling of the blossoms. Since each poem stands alone and has no true plot they lack the significance than if they were put into th...
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Winter can be long and exhausting. The weather is usually cold and gray. Children are aching to get outside and play in the warm sun and without their restricting coats. E. E. Cumming’s intro showed the excitement he faced as a child. He looked forward to Springtime and all the joys that came with that season. Flowers are in bloom, kids are playing, kids are laughing, and you hear the balloon man whistling in the background.
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Smith personifies Spring in the way it “nurs’d in dew” its flowers as though it was nursing its own children (“Close of Spring” 2). While it creates life, Spring is not human, because it has the ability to come back after its season has passed. Human beings grow old and die; we lose our “fairy colours” through the abrasive nature of life (“Close of Spring” 12). Smith is mournful that humans cannot be like the flowers of Spring and regain the colors of our lives after each year. Normally, in comparing the age of sensibility with nature, we see this great appreciation of nature as a whole.