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Spring and All is also included in the first volume of Williams's Collected Poems. According to Williams biographer James E. Breslin, T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land which appeared in 1922, was a major influence on Williams and Spring and All. [3] In The Autobiography, Williams would later write, "I felt at once that The Waste Land had set me ...
John Ireland included six poems for piano and tenor in The Land of Lost Content (1921). His We'll to the woods no more (1928) includes two poems for voice and piano taken from Last Poems and a purely instrumental epilogue titled "Spring will not wait", which is based on "'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town" from A Shropshire Lad (XXXIX). [25]
The exact chronological and interpretive orders of the six 1819 poems are unknown, but "Ode to Psyche" was probably written first and "To Autumn" last. [6] Keats simply dated the others May 1819. However, he worked on the spring poems together, and they form a sequence within their structures. [7]
The tail lines, i.e. the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth, each have three stresses, and all others have four. [17] With two exceptions, both in the first stanza, each line in the poem includes two or more alliterating words, [18] linking the two halves of each line together and also connecting the tail line with the preceding line. [19]
The poem begins with three sections describing the wind's effects upon earth, air, and ocean. In the last two sections, the poet speaks directly to the wind, asking for its power, to lift him up and make him its companion in its wanderings. The poem ends with an optimistic note which is that if winter days are here then spring is not very far.
The poem is an expression of Stevens' perspectivism, leading from a relatively objective description of a winter scene to a relatively subjective emotional response (thinking of misery in the sound of the wind), to the final idea that the listener and the world itself are "nothing" apart from these perspectives. Stevens has the world look at ...
"The Red Wheelbarrow" is a poem by American modernist poet William Carlos Williams.Originally published without a title, it was designated "XXII" in Williams' 1923 book Spring and All, a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse and prose.
Songs of Travel is a song cycle of nine songs originally written for baritone voice composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with poems drawn from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection Songs of Travel and Other Verses. A complete performance of the entire cycle lasts between 20 and 24 minutes. They were originally written for voice and piano.