wintering Flashcards
what does the regular rhyme scheme do?
relates it to harmony which contrasts the lack of harmony in the relationship
‘funerals’
imagery of death, death of the relationship
what does the title suggest?
coldness that is reoccuring
state of slumber
part of the seasons
present continuos verb
what does the present continuous verb suggest?
the cycle of seasons
cycle of continuous arguments
what does the enjambment in the first stanza do?
reinforces the bleakness of the relationship > unstopable
what does ‘night clenches’ suggest?
images of anger - bleak state, makes her feel tense
‘moon, a stone’
bleak and lifeless, represents her relationship
‘shroud’
connotations of death > feels dead beneath her clothes
‘gibberish of birds’
mocking her for waiting up all night
‘the garden tenses’
personifications
‘wept its tears’
suggests the idea that the leaves are tears. the trees shed tears.
‘blur’
similie to show partners lack of trust
‘walk on ice;
metaphor to reflect her nervous and fragile state
‘clouds sag’
full of rain > she is collapsing emotionally
‘the wind screams’
personified > reflects her own feelings
‘love letter’
sign that the lover wants contacts
‘the moon a fingernail’
crescent, half moon > incomplete
what does the sparseness of the stanzas show?
the emptiness of the relationship
what does the cyclic structure?
it complements the emjambment and conveys the idea that the cycle of seasons, and the cycle of wariness in their relationship is inevitable and will continue
‘that morning brings in on a tide of new light’
purity
new beginning
‘soil grows’
image of new life
‘certain, unseen’
suggestions that the situation is changing
‘as pain turns back again to love’
cyclic
‘flower kiss’
idea of spring > new life > new start
