''in Just- ''Poem AnalysisWhat is a year without spring? Spring is one of the most majestic occasions of the year. It is during the spring period that plants and flowers bloom with celestial colors and fragrant smells. In spring, children run around their yards giggling. They play in impeccable weather during this perfect time of year. The brilliance of the sun is more vivid than ever now that winter passed weeks ago. Who wouldn't want to remember this spectacular moment in life. In the poem “in Just-,” E.E. Cummings creates a realistic instant of spring using elements of imagery, alliteration, and tone to reveal that spring is most glorious when you look at it through a child's perspective. Cummings does this for the purpose of appreciating people who understand the beauty of spring with compassion and affection (Smelstor, Marjorie). E.E. Cummings begins the poem with very clear and detailed imagery so that the reader can visualize the entire poem as if they were in the stanzas themselves. Cummings states in the poem “when the world is muddy/succulent the little lame balloon man/whistles away and pees” (lines 1-6). Cummings addresses the word mud-luscious (line 2) to make the reader understand the change of season from winter to spring. Now that the snow has melted it has turned the land into a thick patch of mud that through the eyes of a child would see this as something amazing and be excited about what is to come. The reader interprets the word, as a teenager would say, to feel more like a child in the spring. When... in the middle of the paper... and little girl and Betty and Isabel come dancing from the hop game and the skipping rope and it's spring and the goat-footed ball The man whistles far away and very little Works Cited Beers, G. Kylene and Lee Odell. "Poetry." Holt Literature and Language Arts. Austin, Texas: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2003. 413-14. Print.Brewton, Vince. "E.E. Cummings: A Biography." Web.b.ebscohost.com. Np, nd Web. 8 February 2014. Smelstor, Marjorie. "EE Cummings." Web.a.ebscohost.com. Np, September 2006. Web. 8 February 2014.< http://web.a.ebscohost.com/brc/detail?sid=cfe03813-34d6-486d-92e9-06dc440798b3%40sessionmgr4001&vid=1&hid=4109&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=b 6h&AN=103331MSA10689830000067 > .http://www.easybib.com/export/html