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Poems: Cold in the Earth (Language and Imagery (“Cold in the earth, and…

- - - - her chance for joy has been permanently destroyed.
  - - - reflecting the distress of the speaker.
  - - - she clearly still feels the confusion of grief.
      - She questions herself and how she can move on from her true love;
      - she questions how she could ever escape from despair if she allowed herself to feel it again.
- - - - in contrast with the speaker who is alive;
    - - a metaphor for death,
      - as well as emphasizing the physical distance between them –
        
        the snow is piled between her and her lover.
        
        They are completely separated, and she’ll never get him back.
  - - - again emphasizing the distance.
  - - - There is a sense of guilt in this.
    - - emphasizes how important they were
      - her soul mate.
  - - - but she has had no choice.
    - - as the sea would erode land.
    - - are that she has been cut off from him.
      - This implies her pain at moving on from him.
  - - - this suggests she feels even more guilty,
        
        as if she has betrayed this wonderful man!
      - presenting him as brave and heroic
    - - he will be dead forever, but she will have to keep on living for a long time.
  - - - and this won’t change,
        
        like the phrase itself doesn’t.
    - - which has been like a winter storm (
        
        again, December connoting death and misery).
  - - - Spring connotes life and hope,
        
        and a suggestion that her upset has faded.
  - - - she wants forgiveness for forgetting.
  - - - as if she has no choice in moving on as time passes.
  - - - ‘All my life’s bliss’ is also repeated.
  - - - he was the only source of joy, happiness and contentment for her.
  - - - she accepts she needs to move on.
    - - This implies the importance and value of their relationship to her,
      - but they have ‘perished’ now –
        
        they died with him.
    - - she must get on with her life.
  - - - as if feeding and caring for a baby
    - - she is having to start life again.
  - - - as seen in sensory imagery of ‘indulge’ and ‘drinking deep’.
  - - - she would never wish to return to the world which is now empty –
        
        both of her lover, but also of the intense emotions she felt at his death.
    - - at least when she was grieving she felt intense emotion –
        
        crying and wailing and misery
      - now she’s decided to ‘move on’,
        
        she can’t feel happy as the love of her life is dead,
        
        so she’s a bit like a zombie now, walking along not really feeling anything about life…
        
        It’s almost boring!