er. “All things rejoiced beneath the sun…” This is also an example of personification, because Shelley gives nature the human quality of jubilation. The tone taken in this poem is objective, because Shelley is the third person observer. Shelley associates winter with death. The winter stops nature; but on the other hand sun causes life. Winter and Summer by Stephen Spender also entertains the transition of seasons, but does it in reverse order. The author does not separate the work into stanzas, but does have a couplet. “Alas, I prove that I am right, For if my shadowed mind affirmed the light…” Instead of rhyme scheme, Spender uses blank verse in this poem. In the first eight lines, the speaker discuses the winter, how it is bleak, and seems everlasting. In the next fifteen lines, the author discusses the warmth and beauty of summer. In the last four lines, Spender brings together the summer and winter to unite the end of the poem.Spender uses literary techniques to describe his feelings about the seasons. One example is the allusion to the mythical god Apollo. “The furious volleys of charioteering power, Behind the sun, racing to destroy.” In the myth of Apollo, he brought the sun across the sky in his golden chariot. In these lines, Spender incorporates Apollo into the poem. The author uses two examples of personification. “Of this violent time, where pleasures freeze.” He gives pleasure, an emotion, the human quality to freeze. “Thus, when the summer breaks upon my face…” Again, Spender gives the summer, a non-living thing, the human quality of breaking upon his face. Another literary technique used is the metaphor. “Thus, when the summer breaks upon my face, With the outward shock of a green wave.” In these lines, the author compares the summer to an ocean wave crashing upon the shore. “There, winter was an indoor accident.&#...
