In “Willow Poem,” William Carlos Williams uses line-breaks to reinforce the swirling

motion of nature. As a Modernist poet, Williams tries to write an everyday event. Beginning with

a description of setting, the poem includes the punctuations and periods.The most stand out

lines are line one through line five. They say, “ It is a willow when summer is over,/ a willow by

the river/ from which no leaf has fallen nor/ bitten by the sun/ turned orange or crimson.” From

the first five lines, it shows how the season changed from the end of summer to autumn, As well

as line thirteen to line fourteen, which are “oblivious to winter,/ the last to to let go and fall”. It

doesn’t show how season change but it represents how the willow tries to adapt itself to survive

through the winter. In the sequence and the line-break simulates the swirling of the

nature.Williams, who tried to express common events, uses line breaks in the poem to capture

the nature cycle.