EN 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Winesburg, Ohio, Caesura, Synecdoche
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This poem is about the world coming to an end. Fire and ice could be metaphoric - fire = getting fired up, angry, passionate; ice = seclusion, we could grow cold to one another. So the world could end because of anger or because we become cold to each other. The ending has a fatalistic tone ( oh well screw it ) First he loses the passion, then he grows cold (like a scar growing over a wound) Iambic pentameter that show the passion in it. Caesura = cut; has to do with a pause in a line of poetry. Caesura in the first few lines to make you think. Most commas have a caesura to make a point of emphasis and a thought pause. Ironically the poetry makes more sense than life does. It"s a momentary stay against confusion - we can go to art for comfort, just like how we go to this poem for comfort.
