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**William Carlos Williams**

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T-title: Spring and All- The benefits of the spring season, blissful memories, a recurring image involved with spring, or a significant event that took place. P-paraphrase: The speaker is describing his traveling experience(road trip) and the sights of the landscape before him.The speaker primarily focuses on the trees, leaves, bushes and nature in general. Describes a late winter day. C-connotation: looking for deeper meaning. A-attitude: The attitude of the speaker is bleak/stark with hidden warmth. He is secretly in awe of the sights before him, as he describes the road and the "reddish, purplish, forked, upstanding twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees."
 * Diction and symbolism: The speaker chooses to describe the hospital in the first stanza as contagious, a place for the ill, it leaves an impression about the world we live in as slightly depressing(only mention of a human environment-sickness) the rest is regarding nature. The "road" symbolizes a long, twisting ceaseless cycle that can lead to freedom or danger.
 * Imagery: Visual: the sky with "mottled clouds", the blue deep water and sky, bright green grass, dead brown leaves as winter starts to fade and spring emerges. Sensory: the cold wind- brings chills. Auditory: the crackling of dried leaves, the rush of the wind and weeds as they move. All these descriptions are a part of nature.
 * Personification: " sluggish dazed spring approaches" (14-15) "They enter the new world naker, cold uncertain of all"(16-18) plants are compared to newborn babies
 * The poem is free verse
 * Short sentences are used to descibe the sharp, vivid image of nature.(clear/direct)- quickly creates a mental image in the reader's mind.

S-shifts: Shifts occur in the first stanza from a human environment in the hospital to one with only natural life. Shift from direct lines describing the nature back to the speaker's thoughts on the force of nature.

T-title: "Spring and All" focuses on simple images that are thought provoking, it is more that just the image of nature, it is the emergence of new life.

T-theme: Nature is analogous to the human body and mind, it has to grow and develop in a new atmosphere. The speaker has described nature's entrance into our world and how they respond to it. The stages of life/death/rebirth.

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code By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
 * Spring and All ||||  ||
 * by [|William Carlos Williams] ||

patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines-

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches-

They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind-

Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined- It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of entrance-Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken code || Script

Slide 1- //Spring and All// by William Carlos Williams Slide 2- 5 Read Poem Slide 6- The poem does not simply describe the physical qualities in the landscape but foucues sharply on including everything in the scen, a novelty of life, such as the contagious hospital the broad muddy fields dried weeds tall trees and patches of standing water. Slide 7- The speakers continues to describe the landscape and focuses primarily on the bushes as reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy and uses personification to describe the emergence of spring as lifeless in appearance sluggish and dazed. Slide 8- As the spring season continues to advance, the speakers uses personification to describe the plants as naked, cold and uncertain in relation to newborn babies. Also to focus on the beautiful aspect of the plants, he continues to describe the wild carrot leaf and other natural objects and how they are defined through clarity and outline and the stark dignity of entrance upon their arrival into the new world. Slide 9- The End Slide 10 -Work Cited