Monday, April 7, 2008

storm windows closed reading!

The speaker seems to be a person who used to live in a town where the weather is awful. Based on phrases like “storm windows lying on the ground”, I imagine that there was really bad storm that destroyed everything where the speaker lives. The tone of the poem is a bit melancholy due to the damage. In the poem, it says “lonely afternoon of memories and missed desires, while the wintry rain runs on the standing windows and away”. It highlights the massive loss with nature’s undefeatable power. The poem tries to convey that even though humans try to overpower or at least overcome the nature with civilization or tools like storm windows, the nature isn’t defeated but destructs human.

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