100 words introduction to the poem: 'The Cold Within'. You would be marked as brainliest on answering correctly.
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Answer:
The Cold within refers to the feelings of hatred, jealousy and selfishness which men have in their hearts. They fail to be kind and compassionate to the man next to them. They have so much coldness within that the cold within is more fatal than the cold outside. No one is ready to give up their log of wood for another person which ironically results in their death. Thus it proves that the coldness within a man's heart will spell doom for his own self.
Each person is afficted with some kind of prejudice or vice which is represented by the log of wood they are holding in their hands. If they had given their logs of wood they might have survived the cold or gone into the other world without carrying the burden of sins. This the poet appeals to us to be generous and compassionate towards our fellow human beings and not to lead a life full of ill feelings which will at the end lead to our own destruction.
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the cold within
Explanation:
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In dark and bitter cold
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs,
The first woman held hers back.
For on the faces around the fire,
She noticed one was black.
The next man looking cross the way,
Saw one not of his church,
And couldn't bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes,
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use,
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store.
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy, shiftless poor.
The black man's face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did naught except for gain
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
The logs held tight in death's still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn't die from the cold without,
They died from ---THE COLD WITHIN.