Jim Harrison Winter Spring Analysis

Jim Harrison, in her poem “Winter, Spring” articulates the new born -Spring season brings joy to trees and animals and also nature even though Winter has been “black” miserable, dryness, and anti-blue sky. He develops this idea by first, describing images of a winter as “drought” which has negative connotation and excited for Spring to come; second, by foreshadowing that the land will turn green because of its effect on “good rain” nearing actual Springtime; third, by symbolizing “green” as renewal of the year and also freshness associated with this color; fourth by exaggerating how “the world turn green” at this time of year to appreciate the nature of Spring that everyone excite and wait for; fifth, by the irony of the birds “fly past” from
the speaker’s “arms” shows that the birds realistically do not care about welcoming that the speaker has done; lastly, stating that the birds were “aiming at the feeders” they don’t have time to stop in the middle of migrating rather getting closer to their food.The structure of the poem can be classified as a description of how winter ended in the first two lines and followed by the effect of Spring on nature. The speaker of the poem, who has been so enthusiastic about a new season appreciate the nature’s cycle, although he expects the birds to acknowledge him which is impossible, because the speaker “surprises” about the renewal season it suggests that he is satisfied the fact that evey thing turns green again.