This week we did not have school on Monday and I was very sick most of the week. We analyzed two poems about spring this week. It was interesting to contrast them. Even though they both had similar topics, they conveyed very different messages. The first poem we read "Spring and All" is about spring's association with birth and the abundance of life. The second poem, "For Jane Meyers", looks at spring from a very different lens. "For Jane Meyers" point out the death in spring. The death of different flowers and plants that humans pick-- therefore killing the plants. This reminded me of when I was little and I pick my mother some flowers to give to her. She kindly told me to never pick flowers because flowers belong in their home where they do their part in the ecosystem and feed the bees. Both poets had similar yet different lives. According to their biographies [Gluck; Williams] both grew up in the same area during the same time and had ivy league educations. Looking at the poems from a historic lens, it is interesting to consider that the first poem was written before the Great Depression, before World War II and before the Holocaust, while the second poem was written after/during all those events. Spring, a beautiful concept that has been a muse for writers for centuries, became symbolic of the opposite of what it previously symbolized for writers like Louise Gluck.
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