The Spring Storm
The Spring Storm - meaning Summary
Thaw in Relentless Rain
The poem observes a late-winter landscape caught between persistence of snow and an unceasing rain that forces thaw. Williams focuses on physical sensations—the endless falling water, its runnels and gutters, and drops from withered grass—to show a gradual, almost violent transition toward spring. The scene emphasizes movement and accumulation rather than emotional reflection, turning weather into a concrete process of change and emergence.
Read Complete AnalysesThe sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls as if it would never end. Still the snow keeps its hold on the ground. But water, water from a thousand runnels! It collects swiftly, dappled with black cuts a way for itself through green ice in the gutters. Drop after drop it falls from the withered grass-stems of the overhanging embankment.
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