Write annotations and a short introduction for a poem from this lesson. Your annotations and introduction will look at how the aesthetic impact of the poem is affected by tone, figurative language, and other elements. Your assignment should include the following elements: 6-12 annotations that help the reader understand one of the poems from the lesson

Here are the annotations about the poem:

1. It's a poem published in 1923 by William Carlos Williams. He wanted a new kind of poetry based on everyday speech free from any metrical structures.

2. This poem is a free verse poem of 8 stanzas. There's no rhyme pattern.

3. We can find two moods: a somber and lighless scenery in winter followed by a tone of hope and growth with the arrival of the coming spring.

4. First mood: this is first set with the appearance of a hospital, a place linked to disease and death. The word "contagious" deepens this idea. The desolate scene is found in the description of the place: a cold wind,  standing and fallen dried weeds, muddy fields, water standing still because it seems it hasn't been absorbed, brown leaves in just a few trees. These images convey the idea that nothing lives or moves.

5. Second mood: the fourth stanza marks a turn in the tone. Spring slowly makes its way. There's hope and growth. Roots begin to awaken, grass will be filled with wildcarrot leaves. It seems plants will no longer be dead.

6. The poet wants to describe a real world with vivid vibrant images.  He mentions the clouds: "under the surge of the blue/mottled clouds driven from the/northeast-a cold wind." They enter the scene with force. It seems they don't float but are driven by a cold wind. I can vividly imagine the clouds coming and deepening the gloomy atmosphere of winter.

7. There's no end stops during the poem. It's made up of a flow of ideas free of any pause. It's as if the speaker is in a car or standing up in the road and he puts into words what he sees, what sorrounds him.

8. Following the previous line of thought, notice there's no end point at the end of the poem.  It's as if the poem goes on. He describes the beginning of spring, the first clues. He wants us to continue imagine what will happen next, how nature will bloom, how life will come back.

Explanation:

alone =having no one else present.