Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]

William Carlos Williams * Track #61 On Emily Dickinson

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William Carlos Williams

2015

Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] by William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams

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This is Poem I in Williams' 1923 collection Spring and All, which mixed prose and free verse. “The Red Wheelbarrow” appears in the same collection.

Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] Annotated

I

By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines-

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches-

They enter the new world naked
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind-

Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined-
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of
entrance-Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken

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