Willow And Other Trees In William Carlos Williams Willow Poem

In William Carlos Williams’ Willow Poem he vividly described the difference between the willow and other trees in the fall. The willow tree’s leaves lost color and grew paler instead of shifting into warmer, brighter hues like the other leaves that are “bitten by the sun” (line 4). While the other trees readily released their leaves, the willow’s leaves remained on the tree until they were freed by the beginning of winter. The willow seems strangely unaffected by the forces of nature, such as the sun, that caused the other trees to change at the onset of autumn. Williams’ colorful; use of imagery almost seemed to give the willow’s leaves a personality of their own. The lines “the leaves cling and grow paler, / swing and grow paler/ over the