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When icicles hang by the wall ,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail ,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipped and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
"Tu-whit, tu-who:!"
A merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw ,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
"Tu-whit, tu-who:!"
A merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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Winter
Introduction
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Written in 1594-1595
- Part of one of Shakespeare's earliest plays
Title
Culture
The title of the poem is winter because it is describing snapshots of winter scenes even though the the word "winter" never appears in the poem.
- Village rural life during the winter
- Speaker is familiar with this way of life
- Culture of the lower class
Context
- Love's Labour's Lost
Winter
William Shakespeare
Literary Devices
Mood and Tone
- Imagery
- Repetition
- Onomatopoeia
- Syntax
The speaker conveys the winter as an unpleasant but realistic one when he says words like foul, raw, and hiss to bring more to his perspective on the winter. He does put a satisfying feeling on the last line of each stanza when he says,
"A merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot." to show warmth from being inside and not from outside in the cold.
Vamcydher Kilari
Winter
Sadness vs. Happiness
The Owl in Winter
Theme
Unpleasant symbol with
a happier meaning
Rhyme Scheme
The theme is how people make with what do they have. The poem shows the essence of winter and how its a bitter season. But it shows how humanity has overcome nature's lack of hospitality and have made it livable and enjoyable.
- Most of the poem has anaphora in sentence structure
- Repetition of the last four lines in each stanza represents importance
- Iambic tetrameter
- Has an ABABCCDEF rhyme scheme
Meaning/Symbolism
- The main idea from this poem shows the speaker's observations of the villagers' adaptations to the winter season.
- It also portrays the speaker's feelings toward the unpleasant cold winter.
- A contrast on how harsh it was outside in the winter and the warmth of inside a home
- At the end of of each of the stanzas, it mentions how the owl's song is a merry note, which is ironic considering owl's singing isn't as pleasant as a normal person would think but haunting
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