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(15) , William Carlos Williams uses the metaphor in an entirely different way than the two others before him did – his wasteland is more concerned with how nature reflects humanity. (16) The picture he paints in his poem “Spring and All” is one of a world “lifeless in appearance, sluggish” as it begins to emerge from winter. (17) This is representative of the world at the time. (18) It is in a sort of “freeze” at the moment. (19) The end of the poem hints that it is ready to emerge and be reborn. (20) There’s optimism in this poem that isn’t quite present in the other two works discussed so far. (21) The wasteland of “Spring and All” is temporary – the same is not necessarily true for Fitzgerald and Eliot.

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This is representative of the world at the time it is in a sort of “freeze” at the moment the end of the poem hints that it is ready to emerge and be reborn.

This is representative of the world at the time because while the end of the poem suggests that it's ready to be reborn but it is in a sort of "freeze" at the moment.

This is representative of the world at the time: it is in a sort of “freeze” at the moment, but the end of the poem hints that it is ready to emerge and be reborn.

This is representative of the world at the time which is in a sort of “freeze” at the moment, but also the end of the poem hints that it is ready to emerge and be reborn.