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A 3 page paper which examines the theme and imagery in Jane Kenyon’s poem “Depression in Winter.” No additional sources cited.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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in winter, when they live in a place where winter is long and dark. It is a poem that speaks of the need for warmth and sun, the need for
release from the long dark winter. In this particular theme of the poem we find a great deal of imagery that speaks of this depression and the healing aspect of
nature itself. Now, while the poem could be read as symbolic of many different things, perhaps the long dark depression of losing a loved one perhaps, the following paper focuses
on the theme and imagery presented from the perspective of the obvious, that being despression winter. The paper examines the theme and the imagery within this poem. Depression in
Winter There are very powerful aspects of this poem that speak to this particular writer of Alaska and muskeg fields. The muskeg of Alaska is seemingly solid ground but once
one steps upon it they can become stuck up to their knees or find the ground simply moving beneath their feet. This seems to be what Kenyon is presenting in
the following imagery: "I sank with every step up to my knees,/ throwing myself forward with a violence/ of effort, greedy for unhappiness" (Kenyon 8-10). The imagery of the scene
seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to walk across such wet land.
We get the impression that this narrator is perhaps depressed at the winter, though they could merely be depressed for no reason, not an uncommon experience in many places, such
as Alaska, where one can experience maybe a few moments of sunshine each day in the dead of winter. For many people such an existence is depressing and calls for
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