Winter

Question 1

Winter

Answer 1

Sets the season and shows the reader that the setting is cold and icy winter is also seen as the ‘death’ season as it is the last season and the one where plants die this is a reference to the passage of Rhine

Question 2

Decay

Answer 2

Decay can also be seen as death ad the repetition of this term is used by Morgan to indicate the end of our lives as we fade and fail

Question 3

Hiss of blades

Answer 3

Morgan uses sound as the word hiss is sinister sounding and so is death

Question 4

The voices fade

Answer 4

This is where humanity leaves the poem, first the voices fade as the boys skate away thus removing the only source of life in the poem this shows how everything i disappearing ad decaying

Question 5

Fog drives monsterous l

Answer 5

Light which is typically a metaphor for something positive and full of light has been replaced by a monstrous fog which is sucking the light and life away

Question 6

That Sees nothing and that nothing sees

Answer 6

This suggests the loneliness of death nobody can see the suffering nobody can see the fear. There is a sense of nothingness of death as seen in the repetithion of that word. Morgan makes on grand flames of an after life or other world.