Spring
As you might have guessed from the title, Spring is a pretty important part of this poem. Eventually, it emerges as a kind of weird main character, taking on almost human characteristics as it chan...
Plants
The poem is chock full of plants, both the dead old ones that Winter has left behind, and the new ones that are emerging with spring.Lines 9-13: This is a pretty long description of dead plants, es...
The Hospital
The man-made objects that open the poem have a big influence on the way we look at the nature scenes that follow. The hospital becomes a kind of lens that changes the way we see the world in the po...