Question

5. Analyze Although William Carlos Williams rejected traditional verse forms, he still

believed that it was important to use poetic devices to distinguish verse from prose.
What poetic devices does he use in “Spring and All"? How do these devices draw
attention to significant images in the poem?

Answer 1

The poem is about the winter landscape and the arrival of spring.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The speaker stops by a landscape during winter. The speaker provides descriptions of "broad muddy fields browning with dried weeds." The repetition of the color brown continues and the speaker comments on "dead brown leaves" hanging from the trees.

• The poet uses noun phrases in the poem. leaves are “dead” and the vines “leafless.”

• The poet uses personification and spring is personified as "sluggish" and "dazed". He says the spring enters like a foreiger and says how the landscape changes. The environment is described as a "naked" newborn fresh from the womb arriving into a confusing world.