. . .So Does Season
Winter. . .What Does It Mean?
Winter. . .What Does It Mean?

Old Age

Resentment

Death

Anger
Winter. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud,
/ And after summer evermore succeeds /
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping
cold; / So cares and joys abound, as
seasons fleet.”
-Henry VI, Part II
Winter. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud,
/ And after summer evermore succeeds /
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping
cold; / So cares and joys abound, as
seasons fleet.”
-Henry VI, Part II
Summer. . .What Does It Mean?

Adulthood

Romance

Fulfillment

Passion
Summer. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
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Sonnet 18
Summer. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
VS.
“Shall I compare thee to a
winter's day?”
Winter and Summer . . .

Shakespeare’s King Lear


King Lear rages in his old man madness
(in a winter storm)
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lovers escape to the woods
to sort out their romantic
difficulties
(on a midsummer night)
Winter and Summer . . .

Shakespeare’s King Lear


King Lear rages in his old man madness
(in a winter storm)
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lovers escape to the woods
to sort out their romantic
difficulties
(on a midsummer night)
Spring. . .What Does It Mean?

Childhood

Youth

Life

Birth
Spring. . .What Does It Mean?

Daisy Miller

What can you already tell about the
character by the name?

Henry James' Daisy Miller
Spring. . .What Does It Mean?

Daisy Miller

What can you already tell about the
character by the name?

She is young, fresh, and open

Henry James' Daisy Miller
Autumn. . .What Does It Mean?

Decline

Middle- Aged

Harvest

Tiredness
Autumn. . .What Does It Mean?


Robert Frost's “After Apple Picking”

Refers to a harvest

Agricultural or Personal
Personal

Rewards and Punishments

Gather harvest = tired
Seasons . . .


Each have set of meanings
Most writers make changes to these
meanings
Switching It Up . . .

T.S. Elliot Wasteland
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April is the “cruellest month”

Happier buried under winter snows