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note

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  • Williams uses imagery and tone to show the contrast between the beauty of springtime and the widow’s sorrow over losing her husband
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in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” Williams contrasts the image of flowers which he uses over and over in the body of the poem with _______ at the end

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the marsh

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in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” the widow gives an idea of how heavy the grief in her heart is by comparing it to

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“masses” of flowers that “load” the branches

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in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” the lines “Thirty-five years I lived with my husband” (lines 7-8) abruptly break into the poem

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like the widow’s awareness of her husband’s death keeps breaking the normal routine of her life

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three times in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” the widow says “today” – indicating

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the widow’s focus on her woes “today” and her forgetting of her former “joy”

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in his poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” Williams’ uses the contrasting images of falling into those flowers and sinking into the marsh near them to contrast

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the beauty and life of the flowers with the desolation and death of the marsh

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