A Study of Winter Poetry Essay -- Environment, Winter, Spring

I chose to study pass poetry because I often focus on the cold and harsh conditions, rather than the beauty present. These poems are excellent in making one see past the bleakness, and toward the magnificence of the dazzling light.The beginnings of some(prenominal) Winter and The Winters bouncing mention the loneliness and gelidity of winter. This helps the audience find common ground with the poet, since it is easier to see winter as ugly rather than beautiful. In The Winters Spring, The winter comes I walk alone (1), asks the audience to follow as no one, but the author believes the in the beauty of winter. I want no chick to sing (2) sounds dirty and reclusive, and is reinforced as the author claims to defy his heart his own. Already, the audience views the author as a cold and detested being. Instead, the following stanzas subscriber line with the first, and winter is compared to boundary. Nature imagery, like the foliage of the woodwind (25) and a white descends car ing wing are likened to winter. In the poem, the foliage covering the bare trees is the snow, as is the white doves wing gently covering everything. The Winters Spring also uses words that create a heavenly image, like the Christmas arise (also known as the Lenten rose), white, piercing light, bedazzle, and white dove (7,16, 17,22). This contrasts with the audiences initials views of a lonely and hostile winter, instead suggesting winter emulates the look of heaven. Likewise, the poem Winter starts with a trigger-happy mood, filled with negative connotations Clouded with snow/ The cold winds blow,/ and shrill on leafless bough/ The robin with its burning breast/ Alone sings now (1-5). in that respect is sensory and sound imagery of a cold snowstorm, and of a bird singing... ...ly to Winter, except that the negative connotations are confined to the first triad lines out of thirty, rather than over a third of the poem. Thus, a far-off greater amount of the poem is used in prais e of winter and the remainder is the author gushing over the beauty of winter, by exploitation it as a metaphor to spring. He never wants spring to come, because the winters spring is better. Examples include the snow-white meadows and the White Easter of the grade in bud (18,27), with meadows, Easter and flower buds all commonly associated with spring and rebirth, not winter. The recurring and repetitive comparisons in this poem effectively vagabond the magnificence of winter.Both of these poems effectively persuade the audience, by first acknowledging the ugliness of winter, but then using common and varied devices like contrast and imagery to praise winters beauty.