. . .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?” 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 April is the “cruellest month” Happier buried under winter snows