Question

you want to suggest another title for the poem "cold within " what would be the another title ?? Why ? Explanation required . Please suggest another title​ as this question came icse board exams of 2009 . please ​

Answer 1

1. The title “THE COLD WITHIN” is the most applicable title for the poem.
2. It is a symbolic lack of warmth and compassion in human beings. Six people were trapped in bleak and biting cold and each had one wooden stick which if all the six will burn altogether they can warm themselves but none wanted to bestow (give away) the wooden sticks because each of them were obsessed with certain unsocial thoughts like racism, envy, arrogance, revenge and greed. So, none of them bestowed their sticks and as a result no one survived.
3. Lastly, the poet concludes that they did not die because of the weather but for their cold and arrogant mentality.
4. The coldheartedness of the people invited their end.
5. CONCLUSION:- Thus, the title “The Cold Within” is the most applicable title for this poem as we come to know that “Their logs held tight in death’s still hands.

Was proof of human sin.

They didn't die from the cold without

They died from the cold within.”