Analysis Of The Poem ' The Winter Evening Settles Down '

Analyse (tell me how the poet creates this image - choice of words, literary devices, implication etc)The idea of a freezing, harsh climate is emphasized with "winter's city" and "winter's leaves". The poet uses words like "death" and "terrible" to highlight the freezing, barren winter.

In” Winter Saturday” by Earle Birney, the poet develops the comparison between the farmers and caterpillars by visual and kinesthetic imagery. The harsh weather echoes the farmers’ empty feeling. A storm hit the town and the wind and the snow start while the farmers “find in the Ford their cocoon” (4), implying that they are alone facing the cold weather similar to caterpillars struggling to survive in the cruel nature. Their feeling of void is amplified by the chilling environment which induces their “dreams of light and sound” (7) which matches moths’ behaviour to approach light. When they arrive in the city centre where the lights are concentrated, their movement is compared to the moths beating wings as they “flutter to movie / [and] throb

Poetry can sometimes allow one to explore the unknown. However, in some works of poetry, one can realise that some known ideas or values remain relevant to current society. This is certainly applicable to T.S. Eliot’s poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Rhapsody on a Windy Night. Eliot’s manipulation of poetic techniques in both these poems allows the responder to realise that some ideas prevail in both modern and post-modern society. These poems explore the unknown phenomena of the obscurity regarding the purpose and meaning of life. This unknown phenomena causes the persona in both texts to resort to a sense of isolation or alienation. Eliot uses poetic techniques such as metaphors and personification to convey his ideas.

It might be helpful to regard this poem, like the others, as a video post-card of this moment, six o'clock on the winter's evening. Eliot used words as his way of painting the picture.

The sometimes subtle, yet still noticeable, shifts in the mood of the poem artfully present the reader with the feeling of time passing on. At the beginning, the speaker expresses a somewhat hopeful desire to do something saying, “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky” (Eliot 1-2). Through this statement, the speaker sets a pleasant mood with an evident longing to do something. The leisurely way in which the speaker poses this request, which in turn creates a relaxed feel, exemplifies that the speaker feels no current need for urgency, as he seems to think that he possesses all the time in the world. This hopeful, if not somewhat wistful, mood continues to be expressed when the speaker reassures that,

-Creates a very depressing tone as selfishness takes over to allow the rape that is described for the possession of the blue kite

Eliot uses metaphor to relate accessible, physical entities and concepts to more abstract themes present in the poem. In

Retributive justice is a very common element found not only in literature but in almost all text that tries to evoke moral values. A nemetic ending is often used to provide the reader or spectator the satisfaction of seeing the hero be rewarded for his or her virtuous actions. Alternatively, the evil or malicious characters are usually punished thanks to the hero 's actions and thus brings a somewhat “happy ending” to the conflict. Many authors and playwrights would mostly hesitate to bring an unpleasant end to their stories so that the audience may leave their seats with a more positive outlook on the play. Nevertheless, it might be debatable if a standardized nemetic ending would transmit a more poignant message to the spectators, numerous plays that do not follow this norm are well known to have a very similar, if not equal, impact. To illustrate this tactic, we will mostly focus on the ending of “Snow in Midsummer” by Guan Hanqing that may end in a slightly ambiguous note rather than directly rewarding our hero Dou Er. Henceforth, we will also look over the case of Oedipus the King by Sophocles, that challenges the ideal retributive justice at the end of the play. We, as spectators, have a desire to connect with the characters and the issues they try to get through, as long as the heroes remain praiseworthy and villains fall and get defeated.

In several societies, the season of winter elicits sentiment of frost and coolness, with the time of year also associated with finding personal warmth out of the physical coolness of the season, usually through certain social gatherings rooted in religion. In Christianity, Jesus Christ was born at the beginning of winter, with his birth celebrated on Christmas Day. The poem In the Bleak Midwinter, written by Christina Rossetti, celebrates this very birth from the eyes of one of Jesus’s first followers; a fictional, penniless witness. This poem dramatizes the conflict between society and Christ’s welcome on earth, with this speaker exploring the themes of their relationship with God, maternity, values, and worship through contrasting diction, comparative language, imagery, and allusion in order to tell the story of the birth of Jesus Christ

In The Skating Party, each season brings a separate event for Nathan. In the spring, he falls in love with Delia. Spring is shown as a happy season full of blooming plants, which directly correlates with his budding love for Delia. In Fall, Nathan falls in love with Eunice. Fall is still considered to be a nice season, however it is often raining, and doesn’t have as joyful of a mood as spring. This symbolism of these two seasons shows that Nathan always liked Delia more, and had a higher regard for his love for her than his love with Eunice. Finally, in the winter, Nathan faces the tragedy of Eunice’s death. Winter is a season when plants and trees die, which is not coincidentally the season that his fiancée passes away as well.

Eliot’s use of symbolism can be very disorienting. It has been proposed that this choppy medley is actually furthering his point by representing the “ruins” of a culture. An article

Though he continued writing Poetic Dramas for many more years, but Four Quartets mark the end of his regular poetry. He finished the Quartets on the peak of his spiritual realisation which he tried to set as an example to be followed by the posterity. The last section of the Four Quartets is considered as the greatest spiritual vision of Eliot. The very opening words “Midwinter spring” does not signify any paradox that Eliot would relish but is symbolic of spiritual renewal and revitalisation in midst of a spiritual barrenness caused by the World Wars. He felt the pressure of the social and political events that were taking their toll on the psyche of the common man. “Like everyone else in this period, his life became one of monotony and anxiety, caught in the middle period when pre-war life seemed unreal and post-war life unimaginable.” (Ackroyd 1984: 264) The interplay of the dualities is shown, but there is more of harmony in it than any kind of opposition. There is an impossible union; the contraries like “frost and fire” are brought together to be resolved. Metaphorically, their fusion signifies the advent of an eternal spring where the contraries, even the extreme ones have no

The poem differs from his previous famous works, like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Waste Land in a way that it is written by more matured and religious poet. Indeed the whole Eliot’s poetry changed mainly due to his new religious and moral views. In the first part of Four Quartets, Burnt Norton, Eliot proposed the hypothesis on time - that the past and the future are consistent in the present. In addition to that, he portrayed a “place of disaffection” – most probably the everyday world – which grants neither “darkness” nor “daylight.” In the second part, East Coker, the American poet talked mostly about the place of man in the natural order. As the second part was written during the World War II, it addresses the War most directly in its melancholy and perceptions of extermination. Eliot tried to tell that even though the world is destructed by the science and weapons, humans should accept Christ as their savor and stop this eradication. The third part, The Dry Salvages, escapes pessimism and human ruins of the other three parts. In this part, Eliot considered humanity as a whole by stating that there is a connection to all of humankind within each person. This hypothesis leads to the general idea of the third part - Eliot suggested that people should understand the patterns within the past in order to find the meaning of life. In his final part, Little

Eliot’s creative use of poetic form is one of the hallmarks of “The Wasteland” and greatly contributed to the overall tone and mood. The structure of the poem is uneven and almost discordant. It rapidly transitions between various unrelated scenes at a rapid pace. For example, “I read, much of the night and go south in the winter/What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow…” (19-20) illustrates an abrupt shift in the setting which includes the speaker, time, and place. In the first line, the reader is listening to the story of Marie. In the second line, however, the reader has been transported to a desert: a literal wasteland. This choppy stream of images emphasizes a message about society: like the poem, society does not progress smoothly and can even be unpredictable.

“Colleen, really? I thought you hated the cold weather,” Rachel laughed as she blew onto her gloved hands, which was difficult due to the scarf wrapped around her throat. “I am half frozen. I am starting to feel like Steve Rogers before they pulled him out of the ice. Can’t we go back to the room?”