Although the tone of both poems is bleak, the tone of 'A November Landscape' brightens at the end, while the tone of 'Winter' grows even more bleak
The poems 'A November Landscape' and 'Winter', both portrays the coldness and the bitterness of winter. The author describes the coldest season that implies a very sinister atmosphere. He also transmits to us a dark, gloomy and a hostile image who reveals a fear from the unknown, his own fear towards winter. In the poem 'A November Landscape', the author uses harsh terms to maintain the same tone, such as 'land Bereft' and 'dead ferns' to describe as well the damages caused to the nature by this cruel season. In the other poem 'Winter', the author develops the same strategy to support his evocations, such as 'iron chains', 'sharp snares,' and 'birds of prey' that remains a very somber and dead image of Winter.
Although, the author uses imagery to symbolize the influence of winter on the nature and the effect on the human's temper, he also uses somber words to reinforce the power of these imageries. In 'A November Landscape', regret and desolation are the major words that the author employs, to present us a very melancholic atmosphere, who are introduced to evoke feeling such as; sadness, misery and an overwhelming pressure on the reader. In 'Winter', the author keeps the same tone, and accuses harshly the winter to be responsible of the death of the warmness season of spring.
The tone of the two poems, as I mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, is somber, sad, desolated and depressing. The two authors seem to have painful memories reliant to winter. However, the author of 'A November Landscape' appears to be more optimist about this endless season. At the end of his poem, he presents an encouraging hope that bright
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