Question

The assignment for this lesson is to write annotations and a short introduction for a poem from this lesson. Your annotations and introduction will look at how the aesthetic impact of the poem is affected by tone, figurative language, and other elements

Spring
BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Answer 1

Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a poem about April spring, its a comedic take on her own experience with spring. Edna writes in this poem about how behind the beauty of the world, there is disgustingness; but making art out of the bad of the world, generates new beauty.

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