Sign Inventory

William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

At the beginning of the poem the speaker mentions a contagion hospital and only mentions it once. The hospital still has presence through out the poem because the speaker describes the landscape as sick like a patient would be in a hospital. The speaker describes the winter surroundings as "dead", "lifeless", and "dry". The speaker used the hospital as a metaphor for how the winter cold suffocates and kills the land. He does not see the landscape as alive until the spring "begin to awaken" the land.