Young Sycamore
Young Sycamore - context Summary
Published in Spring and All
"Young Sycamore" appears in William Carlos Williams's 1923 collection Spring and All. The short poem focuses on a single street tree observed closely: its vigorous central thrust, branching, and eventual taper into two knotted twigs. Williams compresses a life cycle into urban detail, using plain, concrete imagery to make an ordinary sapling the poem's subject and to suggest resilience and decline within a modern city setting.
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