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This 3 page paper analyzes Linda Pastan's poem: Sometimes in Winter. Particular images are discussed and exampled. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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then Linda Pastan is one of the more accomplished painter/poets of the modern age. Her use of imagery is vivid, as exampled in the lines of the poem, Sometimes in
Winter. Most readers, when experiencing a poem, will read over phrases or words which bring images into the mind. The better the poet at
suggesting those images, the more vivid the poem becomes, the more direct and received the message is. Understanding this characteristic of the human being, poets take advantage of this suggested
imagery to attach deeper meaning to what is being shown or said in the poem. In Sometimes in Winter, Pastan immediately brings into the
mind the image of winter, of cold, of ice, and of death. Interestingly enough, she does not mention the word death once in the entire poem, but it is evident
by her use of images that this is what she is suggesting. There are metaphysical references, as well as suggested metaphors which indicate that the people she is observing and
commenting about are older individuals who are nearing the end of their lives. "when I look into the fragile faces of those I love"(Pastan
632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those who are
frail, who might break. This idea is reinforced through the introduction of ice, which is also fragile. "I long to be one of those
people who skate over the surface of their lives, scoring the ice with patterns of their own making"(Pastan 632). The controlling them, then,
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