in Just- Man and the Natural World Quotes

Hmm. We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: here’s the key that the balloonman might be Pan, the mythical god of the satyrs. Does that make him more a part of the natural world than he would be otherwise? We’re not really sure.

Right off the bat, we’re thrown into a world that has a genuinely good vibe. No scariness, no hard conquests of nature…it’s a delightful spring. That’s not a bad place to be, eh?

Cummings creates some absolutely vivid descriptions of the wonderfulness of spring by suggesting that ordinary language just can’t contain how amazing it is. He has to invent new words to accomplish that.

As if one made-up word wasn’t enough, Cummings tosses this guy in for good measure.

By the time we get towards the end of the poem, the line breaks make the announcement that spring has arrived even more emphatic. Here’s the first time that we see "it’s/ spring" on two different lines, suggesting that the discussion of spring is only getting more important as our speaker continues.