''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
Poetry and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 9nd ed. New York: Longman, 2005. Pgs 389-392
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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.
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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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Poetry, Drama, and the Essay. Ed. Joseph Terry. New York: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc, 2001.
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Literally, this is a poem discribing the seasons. Frosts interpertation of the seasons is original in the fact that it is not only autumn that causes him grief, but summer. Spring is portrayed as painfully quick in its retirement; "Her early leaf's a flower,/ But only so an hour.". Most would associate summer as a season brimming with life, perhaps the realization of what was began in spring. As Frost preceives it however, from the moment spring...
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