
Spring. a few pieces about Spring that evoke season of birth
‘April is the cruellest month’, the speaker declares in Yeats’ most famous poem ‘The Waste Land’. It is a season ‘breeding lilacs out of dead land’. Uneasy with ‘mixing’ the memory of winter and the ‘desire’ for summer, the speaker observes the absurdity of seasonal transition, where life and death hang closely.
More often, Spring evokes images of rebirth and