After The Winter By Claude Mckay

“After the Winter” by Claude Mckay does more than just tell a story, but goes in depth to describe every minute detail, from the shedding of tree leaves, to the whistling of the wind in the air. Mckay puts his heart into making the story so clear for the reader, portraying imagery in a way that is beautiful and heart wrenching, that it comes alive and creates this emotion of love. and in the process mixing so many elements of personification, as the speaker describes the outdoors in fine detail.
After the Winters imagery revolves around its detail, and clear visions of nature, describing these details with small words that make a vast difference such as “Shivering birds beneath the eaves” that tells the nature of the story but also using phrases

Rather he uses onomatopoeia, and personification to describe each action adding to the nature scene. Examples from After the Winter consist of words like “Shed” “Shivering” “Spire” these words taking the place of personification as they’re used to describe an action after the word is typed. The word shed is being used to describe how birds are feeling in the cold climate. “ Shivering birds beneath the eaves”. Mckay not only uses onomatopoeia to describe live creatures and organisms, but uses the element to express animate objects that serve a great purpose creating the setting. Examples of these actions being “fade” and “spire” Mckay places these words in the perfect place to set a scene as the word fade is paraphrased in the sentence “Ferns that never fade” and the word spire as “Bamboos spire the shafted grove”.
The words used in the poem contribute to the poetic form known as Rhymed poetry, with Mckay making a rhyme poem with definitions and actions, having the scheme of it line up perfectly. One could say this poem follows in the shadow of Pastoral poetry with its rural landscape and natural world base that puts the setting in place. The poet created this piece using Poetic forms to convey and meaning to the audience about her opinion and view of nature based on a lively poem that ties love and captivation or in nature

Following up with the second stanza that doesn't change at all, as the character is written to continue fantasizing about this lovely future with his significant other, the author just uses more imagery and personification to set the setting, and convey a sense of peace. McKay does a great job writing this poem with uses of elements, and especially Alliteration, as used in the first stanza he performs the action in scenes of nature examples including, but not limited to “Trees have shed their leaves” and “Shivering birds” Giving the words a sense of action and place, as we can depict what the situation is, and the organized flow of the entire poem, how it plays out and makes us think about this sense of place, and what’s really important, which in this case would be