Question

What special significance do the adjectives 'bleak' and 'bitter' have? (poem: The cold within)​

Answer 1

In the poem 'the cold within' ,the bleak and bitter cold is used to explain the severe cold outside and it also means the grudge and hatred inside the persons which is severe than the outside cold which eventually brought deadth to them. The figure of speech used here is alliteration.

Answer 2

Answer:

bleak and bitter is used to describe the environment or the setting of the poem.

Bleak is used to describe the the barren ground and bitter is used to express how worse the cold is.

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