1. Songs Of Ourselves
Brittany Le

2. Procession Of Seasons
The Flowers That On The Banks And Walks Did Grow
Spring, The Sweet Spring

3. Reasons for choosing these three poems:
Content
Figurative Devices
Theme

4. Summary of Content A Procession of Seasons
The Flowers That on The Banks And Walks Did Grow
Flowers and trees mourn for the absence of a woman (Margaret). It is more likely that she is a snowbird rather than dead.
Spring, the Sweet Spring
Celebrating spring! Poem portrays spring as joyous and pleasant; a time of rebirth and love.
A Procession of Seasons
Describes the four seasons of life and compares it to the human life cycle.

5. Content Seasons/nature portray absence of woman
Procession of Seasons
Cycles of Life mirror Cycles of Human Life
Seasons Personified
The Flowers That Did Grow…
Seasons/nature portray absence of woman
Spring, The Sweet Spring
Addresses two ages of loves
Celebrates Spring

6. Figurative Language All three poems employ personification.
Each poem personifies nature
to show the fragility of
human life. Certain stages
of life reflect different emotions
and ages that humans experience.

7. Figurative Language : Personification .
Procession of Seasons
“…Lusty spring, all dight in leaves of flowers . . and in his hand a javelin he did bear...”
“…Winter clothed all in frieze, chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill…”
“Then came the jolly summer… he … had hunted the late leopard or the boar…”

8. Figurative Language : Personification .
The Flowers That On The Banks And Walks Did Grow
“The flowers that on the banks and walks did grow
Crept in the ground, the grass did weep for woe;”
“And those sweet brooks that ran so fair and clear,
With grief and trouble wrinkled did appear.”

9. “… the daisies kiss our feet...”
Figurative Language : Personification
Spring, the Sweet Spring
“The fields breathe sweet…”
“… the daisies kiss our feet...”

10. T H E M E
Nature and Life

11. Procession The Flowers That.. Spring… Spring: Young Lover
Summer: Hunter
Autumn: Farmer
Winter: Elder
The Flowers That..
Nature suffers alone
Nature saddened by absence of a person – just as people are saddened in the absence of loved ones
Spring…
Spring celebrated
Young lovers and Old lovers enjoy spring – shows that spring is enjoyed by all ages

12. Personal Interpretation
In the poem “Spring, the Sweet Spring” I wonder if Autumn and Winter are looked down upon because of the era in one’s life these seasons would apply to (later years). This ties into the poem “The Flowers That On The Banks And Walks Did Grow” because nature transitions into autumn and winter when a woman leaves. Both seasons represent a time of loss, just as autumn is the introduction to winters loss of leaves on a tree. The woman eventually returns in poem 2, alluding that she's a snowbird. But metaphorically, she is spring; she is summer. She’s apart t of the “Procession of Seasons” which represents a life cycle. She’s “reborn” so to say.