Summative Assessment Final Response

Summative Assessment Final Response

The poem “Winter” makes you feel that winter is not just a season but it makes you realize the effects that winter has on everything around you. However we often forget to see the little things that change when our seasons change, and we ignore the beauty of what the season change creates in our world. Throughout the poem, the author uses personification and visual representations to develop a theme and give it notice. The author uses personification to develop a deeper meaning behind the theme: The beauty behind winter, and the importance of the little changes in the seasons. Using ideas such as the crackling trees, or the biting of the air creates a deeper meaning of the theme, as these examples create

Each use of personification gives greater meaning to the theme. For example, the speaker uses this at the begging of the poem when first starting to explain that nature changes as the winter comes, “ Note the crisping, quivering wind.” This shows you the nature outside, and how the winter changes the temperatures and weather. From this, we can see the winter coming because of what was shown through the use of personification and visual imagery, crisp quivering wind, and the temperatures decreasing. Without the use of this figurative language as readers, we wouldn’t feel the changes that winter is making. As well as readers without the use of personification specifically, we wouldn’t feel the interest to read further on. As the poem continues on we can see how this use of figurative language makes these winter changes feel important, and visual to the reader. Furthermore, in the poem, the author continues to use personification that helps us see these important changes that winter creates that we often

The poem states this as it continues to explain the winter coming, showing the weather is getting extremely cold and the leaves have fallen making the trees bare. The use of personification in this piece makes the readers feel almost as the winter changes are happening right outside. Rather, if the author chose not to use figurative language the importance of the little changes and beauty that the winter creates, would be missed. As readers without the figurative language, we wouldn’t feel how the winter creates these glowing sunsets, harsh cold winds, and the beauty of these cold winds and bare trees with no leaves. The author is using personifications to describe the environment as these winter changes are happening so that the overall theme that they are trying to create feels stronger. Because of the figurative language such as this example, we can see the beauty behind these simple changes. Such as the beauty of the crisp winds, or bare trees that will soon be covered with snow. The auhor throughout the poem is describing the environmental changes in the winter season, and to describe these changes they are using human-like features to describe it in a way that has a stronger reflection on the