Read this excerpt from "Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams

By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches

What connotations do many of the words in the except have in common?

A. Travel
B. Death
C. New life
D. Ecstasy

In at least 150 words, discuss the comparison described in the figurative language and how the connotative language reinforces the symbol. certainly the utmost rim of my first dome was filled with the tumultuous impression of soldiers marching to death for freedom's sake, of pioneers streaming westward to establish self-government in yet another sovereign state. only the great dome of st. peter's itself has ever clutched my heart as did that modest curve which had sequestered from infinitude in a place small enough for my child's mind, the courage and endurance which i could not comprehend so long as it was lost in "the void of unresponsible space" under the vaulting sky itself.