Sound and Sense 70/70-71

Bereft
1. The summer is past and cold and windy winter has come. The man feels lonely and empty as his life is in decline as he got older. The speaker seems like he is standing on a hill and watching icy shore. The weather is getting colder and more windy.


1. read it through
2. Hound= a dog of any of numerous hunting breeds Rend= to remove from place by violence Spurng= Equivocal= subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse; uncertain as an indication or sign
3. the speaker is a random guy
4. he is just thinking, most likely outside where he can see a dog. He seems like he is suffering from Great Depression; therefore he talks about the two opposite results out of life.
5. The tone seems to be concerning and monotone. The speaker is not actual depressed or anything like that but he is thinking about how life can come out differently.
6. Some of the ends of the lines rhyme, and in general, the language is very concise while containing deeper meaning to it. He represents life as a hound and uses characteristics of hound to describe different things.
7. Theme is that the life cannot be assumed but you got to experience and face it in order to know and talk about it.
8. The author set hound as the representation of life and all other characteristics to describe parts in life.