Can i get a summary of 85-100 words on poem 'the cold within'.
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Explanation:
Through his poem, 'The Cold Within' James Patrick Kinney wants to highlight how the man gives in to discrimination and prejudices which govern all his thoughts and deeds. By the example of a group of six people sitting around a fire holding a stick each, Kinney allows the reader to know the psyche of each of them. How each of them is prejudiced and holds back his stick which is needed to let the fire go on. The white hates the black and the rich is contemptuous of the poor. Their hatred is stronger than the genuine need of the hour, i.e. to let the fire go on. Ultimately the fire dies and Kinney makes it clear that it was not due to the cold outside, but it was due to the cold within that refrained each of them to use his stick to keep the fire going. The message was so powerful, the poem took on a life of its own.