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Spring By Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Spring is a season of beauty and rebirth. It embodies the idea of beautiful life that the season endures. Spring is filled with many colors, sights, and smells that leaves us in awe of what the season has to offer. The beautiful characterisitics it presents almost seems too good to be true. Within the poem, Spring, the speaker feels as if the season has nothing to offer other than being beautiful. She feels nothing good comes out of Spring and people hype it up too much. The main theme in this poem is disillusionment. The speaker feels unsatisfied with the season and wishes there was more to it. She recognizes its beauty, but longs for so much more. In the poem Spring, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, she utilizes the poetic devices of metaphors, imagery, and personification to help further enhance the disillusionment the speaker feels. …show more content…

reality. The main metaphor presented in lines 13-15 state, "Life in itself/Is nothing/An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs" (Millay 13-15). This line explains that there is never a true meaning to life. It is pointless because we are all going to die in the end. The world is beautiful, but the beauty will expire just like all of us. The beauty of Spring has so much to offer, however, it will eventually fade and soon be nothing. Beneath the beauty of Spring lies the corpses of other people, which demonstrates all life must come to an

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