Question

The poet say that the character"died form the cold within ". what does he mean?

Answer 1

Answer:

By the phrase “the cold within” the poet means the coldness of the hearts — the lack of warm human spirits of the six persons who gathered around the dying fire in that winter evening. ... Therefore the poet commented that the death was not due to the cold outside, it was the cold within their hearts that killed them

Answer 2

Explanation:

According to James Patrick Kenney's poem all the six people died due to cold. But the actual reason was that they died because of “the cold within” — the lack of warm of human spirit in their heart – which brought their death in the end.