Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

By the end of the poem there is another shift in tone. The tone takes on a more hopeful meaning. Now, Bryant uses the spring season to compare to a new age. He mentions, “The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes/ In the full strength of years, matron, and maid,/ The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles.”(68-70) The rebirth of human life compares to nature in the sense that when nature is reborn in springtime everything turns green. The reader ends the poem with an enlightened sense of feeling instead of the dark and gloomy feeling they felt at the beginning of the poem.

While the beginning half of the poem feels joyous and lighthearted, it is masked by a thin facade. This is portrayed by the nighttime setting and the shakiness of the seemingly cheerful terms, such as the verses “while the stars, that oversprinkle / all the heavens, seem to twinkle” (6-7). In the latter half of the poem, the tone becomes openly dark. The speaker probably sees this poem and its four sections as stages in life, which quickly dive from a bright atmosphere to a downright distressing one. Together, they represent the idea that happiness is

The use of symbolism by each poet conveys a powerful representation of different ways throughout each poem. While going through their checklist, Snodgrass reminds himself to put an aspirin in the flowers to keep them preserved. These flowers symbolize the love and affection the couple shares hoping to keep their love preserved as well when they return to their normal lives. This symbolism connection is the only sort emotion Snodgrass uses in his poem to show these two were intimate.

Summary, analysis, and interpretation are not the same thing. When one approach summary in the poem, one must state the main point of the poem without adding any his or her own opinion. However, in analysis, the reader must asked the how and the why the author include certain elements, or words in it. Finally, for interpretation, one must approach this in terms of how he or she connects to the poems in their own personal perspective, or emotional way, especially since most of the poem related to human experience. Additionally, I think it is also important to consider the historical context and the time frame of when the poem was written, in order to interpret the poem as a whole. Summary, analysis, and the interpretation are in fact working

I have decided to expand this short literary analysis paper into a research paper in a bid to explain fully the issues about the poem. The poem has a vast base of issues that need critical analysis in the interpretation to bring out the real meaning behind every word used in the poem. The literary analysis paper sort of locked out many ideas in the poem due to the brief nature of it. By going back to the poem and also reading from secondary sources, I intend to use this research to more vividly describe the themes of the poem as per my own understanding and that of other people. By reading from secondary sources, I will get the understanding of others and cite it in my research paper.

The use of these poetic techniques can make readers interpret the poem in a literal or figurative way. The literal meaning of this poem would be a man who is in love and is trying to to tell the woman he loves that feelings come first. (the literal meaning of this poem IS about a man…) On the other hand, the poem figuratively discusses about life being well balanced if we were to go with the flow and not think about reasons for why everything happens in life. For instance, stanza one emphasizes on how a person should consider their feelings first before

This poem describes seasonal changes and how people long for spring to arrive after winter so the warmth and blossoming

Following her husband's death, Mrs. Mallard decided to start visualizing all the possible new outcomes that would come. Correspondingly, Chopin emphasizes her theme by setting the story on a specific season. When the author states, “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air…” She tries to portrait the atmosphere with a positive ambient. In the story, spring clearly represents a fresh life with new hopes for the future. Hence, the use of symbolism offers a different representation to develop the theme of the

Stanza 1, Line 1 & 2), capture the poem’s central theme, but the interpretations of

When reading this poem you will get a very vivid image of a warm summer morning because of the words "sunny, summer and dried the dew." A girl is in a field running carelessly with a silk dress on that sways as the breeze blows. She is tall and slender as a "cedar pole." Who has a very carefree spirit is "strictly held by none". A girl who is completely at peace because everything in her life is going well "by countless silken ties of love and thought to everything on earth the compass round."

In the third stanza, the speaker praises the urn for its eternal youth and zeal. "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu.”(lines 21-22) He admires the trees that cover the lovers for they will not loose their leaves over the changing seasons. For this he it seems is grateful and feels happy. Moreover, the use of word spring is of key importance for spring signifies the start of a new seasonal cycle of

One should pay attention to the poem as a whole to all its elements and meaning

April is also cruel. There is a “dead land” containing “dull roots” and “dried tubers.” (ll. 2, 4, 7) The regeneration spring assumes is alienated from the reader, there is not hope for a new year, but a reminder of a painful past.