How do the ideas conveyed in the poem"COLD WITHIN" relate to society today . Did you face a similar kind of experience in your life. The experience which helped you understand the poem in a better way
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Answer:
no I doesn't face this situation
explanation :
stanza 1
poems opens on a dramatic note . it attracts our attention At Once by the use of diction. the poet says that 6 humans get trapped by chance in a very bitter cold .he uses human and not people so as to refer to all human beings .the line 'six human trapped by happenstance '- is to be read carefully .though the six persons were together in a situation which seems to have been arranged even though it was accidental that is why the poet has used the word happenstance an event that is arranged the 6% what does in the situation from which there was no escape they were sitting near the fire which was fast dying each of them had I stick of wood this is how it is told in the story we later realize dynastic in each hand is the symbol of sin .
stanza 2
the fire which was dying needed to be fed with logs of wood. the first woman was not ready to renounce her stick of wood to keep the fire burning because she had noticed that one of them was a black .she did not want to save the black. thus, she acted out her racial prejudice .
stanza 3
the next person in the group was a man who could not persuade himself to give up his stick of wood to help a person of another religion .he suffered from intolerance
stanza 4
the third man was very poor he was in tattered clothes . He was full of bitterness and envy for the rich. he gave his coat a hitch , which is suggestive of his tightness . he thought it would be and just to give what little he had to help other who had more than he so he held his stick back
stanza 5
the rich man continued to sit back and think of the money he had and how he could save it from the lazy poor he did not want to give anything to the undeserving poor does he showed his greed and stinginess .
stanza 6
the black man's face showed how much revengeful he was as the fire was dying I thought he had the chance to hurt the white people by keeping his stick with him he clearly suffered from the vice of spite .
stanza 7
the last man in the group lacked generosity as no one else had given his stick he would also keep his stick with him in fact he did nothing except for gain .
stanza 8
as the fire extinguished all the person died they did not because of the cold outside but because of the cold within .they died because they were too selfish to help others each of them had a log still in his or her hand suggesting that no one had renounced sinning being unkind for one reason or the other .