Analysis of the poem The Cold Within
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Stanza 1: Six people are trapped by coincidence in a bitter cold. Each one had a stick of wood.
Stanza 2: First there is a girl who is prejudice against the black. She refuses to put her log in the fire as she sees a black.
Stanza 3: Next there is Christian. He sees a man who does not belong to his church so he holds back his stick.
Stanza 4: Next there is a poor man. He refuses to put his log in the fire as he sees a rich man in the group.
Stanza 5: The rich man sees the poor one and refuses to give away his log as he thinks that the poor is lazy because he did not earn for his living.
Stanza 6: The black man refuses to give is log of wood because he sees a white After all, he has suffered in their hands in life, because he was born black. With such myopic conscience, he decided not to put his wood in the fire starving for fuel.
Stanza 7:The next man in the group was too self-centered. He never engaged in any act of sharing and giving. He gave, only if there was something to get in return. So, calculative was he.
Stanza 8 :All the six members clutched their pieces of log, and saw the fire slowly dying out. Then came the ghoulish cold, creeping like a cobra. Slowly, but steadily, it gripped the six selfish and stupid souls and drained them of life. The death was excruciatingly painful.
Conclusion.. This poem is a brilliant allegory which will remain relevant till such time humans walk on earth. The evil in humans will never die, and will continue to bring misery and death, relentlessly.
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