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Spring Is Like... [1]

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4.10.18

 “Spring is like a perhaps hand / (which comes carefully / out of Nowhere)arranging / a window,into which people look,” writes e. e. cummings, using the image of a hand and its actions to describe the nature of spring. His musings go on in the poem [3] to make various imaginative leaps, but its twists and turns are held together by the shared exploration of a specific subject. This week, as spring comes on, try writing your own poem that begins with, “Spring is like…” and explores the season through simile.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/spring_is_like [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/spring-perhaps-hand