Rotation 8, blog 2

“Spring and All” William Carlos Williams
Poem is about spring  the title and lines from the poem: “All along the road the reddish/ purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes.”
Visual Imagery: “Under the surge of the blue/ mottled clouds.”
“Lifeless in appearance, sluggish”
Made up of 8 stanzas
-all aren’t the same length  every other stanza is made up of two lines, and then the 6 and 7 ones are made up of two lines, while the last stanza is made up of 4 lines. The pattern changes at the end within the last three stanzas
-punctuation used throughout
-no real rhyme scheme
-sounds more like prose when read aloud, even though the lines aren’t long in the stanzas
-beginning couple stanzas are about the earth before spring comes: “parches of standing water” and “brown with dried weeds”
-these images show how winter has dragged on the earth, and made it unpleasant looking
By the end of the poem you have different images: “one by one objects are defined” and “they/ grip down and begin to awaken.”  talks about plants “awakening” after the winter  personification
Tactile Imagery: “a cold wind”
Euphonic: “They enter the new world naked/ cold, uncertain of all.”
-Uses A LOT of adjectives throughout the poem: “cold, muddy, standing, tall”


“Oh no” Robert Creeley
Sounds like a regular sentence when read a loud
-all one stanza
-barely any punctuation
Seems to be talking about heaven: “and when you get there/ they will give you a place to sit”
“And they will likewise all have places”  makes you think that this means every single person will have a purpose
No rhyming
Poem isn’t exactly clear: refers to “they” as if you are supposed to know who they are
No challenging words
The first line: “If you wander far enough”  even though I think that this poem is about heaven this first line seems kind of strange
-if you die, it doesn’t seem like you would have to wander around to find heaven, I feel that you would just go there right away
-this line gives off a sense that you can choose to go to heaven or not
The second line: “You will come to it”  leaves it as the destination you have found
-calling the destination “it” leaves the option endless as to what the place truly is
Visual Imagery: “and all your friends will be there/ with smiles on their faces”
-makes heaven seem like a very happy, pleasant place to be
-never in the poem is there any indication of religion, or after life directly, but these lines above make me think of heaven
Internal alliteration: “with smiles on their faces”
Could be Euphonic  isn’t hard to read aloud at all, but doesn’t seem poetic enough to be considered euphonic
-the diction seems too simple to be considered “pretty language”


“Piano” D.H. Lawrence
Has rhyme scheme throughout all three stanzas
-each stanza is made up of four lines and the two lines have end rhymes
Stanza one: A
A
B
B
-this is the rhyming pattern throughout the whole poem: “strings, sings” “outside, guide”
-the lines are pretty long  even though the poem looks like prose, it sounds more like a poem when read aloud because of the rhyming
Words that may need to be looked up: insidious, tinkling, vain, appassionato, cast, vista
Tone: he is remembering his childhood, as a woman sings to him
-this singing reminds him of his mother, and makes him miss his childhood: “I weep like a child for the past”  this is also a simile
Uses a great deal of adjectives: “black, poised, small, weeps
Tactile imagery: “with winter outside”
First half of the last line: “Down in the flood of remembrance”  strong line  shows just how much all these memories are coming back to him, and how much they mean to him
Seems cacophonic at times: “in spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song”
But then at other times seems euphonic: “softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me”
-First line is iambic
Punctuation is used at the end of every last line in each stanza
-made up of 3 stanzas
-each stanza has 4 lines
-most of the lines aren’t enjambed lines
Overall, the poem seems to be pretty happy until the end when he starts to cry
-but at the same time, it’s good that this man loved his childhood so much
-will want to make his kids childhoods even better