Imagery In 'Spring And For Jane Meyers'
When most people hear the word “Spring” they think of a typical Sleeping Beauty situation, the birds are chirping and the flowers are blooming. It is always a cheerful time coming out of winter, but for the narrator in Williams's Spring and All, spring is a dreadful time of sorrow and death. Gluck’s For Jane Meyers focuses on a more positive tone, describing a kid excited for the coming of spring so much than he could just die. These two poems use numerous instances of imagery to illustrate the worst and best qualities of spring. In Spring and All, the poem focuses on the dull, sluggish qualities of spring as it is arriving, and For Jane Meyers, holds the tone of spring as a beautiful and exciting. The setting of Spring and All starts in
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From the beginning, readers get this sense of happiness through lines such as, “Sap rises from the sodden ditch glues two green ears to the dead birch twig,” (Meyers 1-3). Readers get the sense of the warm sun melting the sap off the trees, signaling the coming of spring. Later in the poem readers get the feeling of anticipation and excitement when the young girl, Jane Meyers, is introduced. Jane is impatient for it to be summer, as she has already “digging out her coloured tennis shoes,” (Meyers 4-5), ready for the exertions and fun of summer. This is also important for the tone of the poem because it is describing the fun and exciting steps Jane is taking in anticipation for Summer. Jane is delighted at the thought of summer coming. Further evidence of the positive tone spring's coming is the blooming of the Bartlett flowers, as well as the daffodils. They are described as them moving wearily in the breeze, as if just waking from a long sleep, which helps create an image of new emergence for the readers. The biggest example of excitement the poem conveys comes in the third to last stanza of the poem when Jane exclaims “We are going to die,” (Meyers 17). She does not mean they are literally going to die, but rather she is so excited for the coming of spring of summer that she is figuratively going to die. All these examples set a well rounded excitement for the coming of spring. The sun shining, flowers blooming, and a young girl grabbing her summer shoes are all greatly positive occurrences. Overall For Jane Meyers takes on a forward-looking attitude for readers to
From the beginning, readers get this sense of happiness through lines such as, “Sap rises from the sodden ditch glues two green ears to the dead birch twig,” (Meyers 1-3). Readers get the sense of the warm sun melting the sap off the trees, signaling the coming of spring. Later in the poem readers get the feeling of anticipation and excitement when the young girl, Jane Meyers, is introduced. Jane is impatient for it to be summer, as she has already “digging out her coloured tennis shoes,” (Meyers 4-5), ready for the exertions and fun of summer. This is also important for the tone of the poem because it is describing the fun and exciting steps Jane is taking in anticipation for Summer. Jane is delighted at the thought of summer coming. Further evidence of the positive tone spring's coming is the blooming of the Bartlett flowers, as well as the daffodils. They are described as them moving wearily in the breeze, as if just waking from a long sleep, which helps create an image of new emergence for the readers. The biggest example of excitement the poem conveys comes in the third to last stanza of the poem when Jane exclaims “We are going to die,” (Meyers 17). She does not mean they are literally going to die, but rather she is so excited for the coming of spring of summer that she is figuratively going to die. All these examples set a well rounded excitement for the coming of spring. The sun shining, flowers blooming, and a young girl grabbing her summer shoes are all greatly positive occurrences. Overall For Jane Meyers takes on a forward-looking attitude for readers to