Question

Explain the cold within poem by James Patrick kinney.

Answer 1

Answer:

The Cold within is the poem of 6 man's belongs to different race & religion.

Explanation:

• Six human, each possessing a stick of wood, are trapped by chance in biting cold
• The fire is sinking and is in need of logs to be kept alive
• Out of a group of six people, a woman on seeking a black man does not give her log.
• The second man on finding that one of them does not belongs to his church (religion community ), holds his log back.
• The poor man does not put his log to use to prevent rich man from getting cold.
• The rich man's concern is his wealth and how to keep it safe from the lazy poor people.
• The black man's face is filled with revenge and thus to harm the white does not use his stick of wood.
• The last man is ruled by selfishness and gives only those who give him in return.
• Their logs held in their hands invite death.
• These six people die not of the cold outside but of "the cold within".