Yellow - plosives - contribute to the feeling of things being lost

Green - frictives reflecting the sharpness of winter fading away

Sibilance - mirrors the gradual melting away of winter.
Alliteration - speakers love is still there not affected by external
beauty
Metaphor - while nature goes through the cycle of renewal. The
lover remains cold and distant
Personification - lack of change in bhis lover
Hyperbole - how out of sync his life is
Anaphora -
Symbolism - shows coldness and detachment

1. NO PARAGRAPH - endless love for her its a feminine rhyme

as women are supposed to be giving but shes cold as ice thus
contrasting
2. Uses winter as a motif to show ridgid heart which is frozen
3. birth is again symbol of femininity and fertility which the
woman lacks; also rebirth is a [powerful symbol of
transformation which she does not undergo]
4. She wears a mask but at the end she is winter

Spring - Thomas Carew

Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost

Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost

Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream
Upon the silver lake or crystal stream;
But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth,
And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth
To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree
The drowsy cuckoo, and the humble-bee.
Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring
In triumph to the world the youthful Spring.
The valleys, hills, and woods in rich array
Welcome the coming of the long'd-for May
Now all things smile, only my love doth lour;
Nor hath the scalding noonday sun the power
To melt that marble ice, which still doth hold
Her heart congeal'd, and makes her pity cold.
The ox, which lately did for shelter fly
Into the stall, doth now securely lie
In open fields; and love no more is made
By the fireside, but in the cooler shade
Amyntas now doth with his Chloris sleep
Under a sycamore, and all things keep
Time with the season; only she doth carry
June in her eyes, in her heart January.

1. Juxtaposing the warmth and comfort of spring with the cold pitiless
nature of the speaker’s love

2. Poem uses nature and changing seasons to show speakers' inner

emotional struggle with themes of rebirth,renewal and love
symbolising potential for emotional awakening and romantic
fulfilment. The speakers love is unreciprocated and his lovers
emotional coldness continues.

3. Contrast between renewal of nature and emotional coldness of

speakers love shows disconnection showing the pain of
unreturned love and unavoidable emotional isolation even during
times of joy and growth in the world around him.
4. Poem shows that love like seasons is subject to change but not
always in ways that align with the natural world

5. Winter as emotional isolation

➢ the poem begins by describing winter as a time of coldness and
detachment. Winter represents a period of emotional
withdrawal, where love and warmth feel distant. This suggests the
speaker might have gone through an emotional winter in which
love or connection seemed impossible or absent.
➢ The snow-white robes of winter symbolize an untouched or
unspoiled state, but it’s also a state that lacks warmth and
intimacy. The frost that no longer “candies the grass” symbolizes
that the emotional barriers have started to melt, but the speaker’s
love remains unaffected by the return of spring.

6. Spring as an option to emotional renewal

➢ Spring is metaphorically associated with renewal, growth, and the
reawakening of life and love. The sun thawing the benumbed
earth suggests that love has the potential to bring life and warmth
to a heart that was once closed off. Spring is a time when even
the dead swallow (symbolising lost or dormant emotions) is
revived.
➢ However, the key insight here is the tension between the natural
world’s awakening and the speaker’s personal situation. While
nature is revitalised, his love is not. This creates an emotional
dissonance that hints at the complexities of love—despite
external beauty and vitality, emotional connections are not always
in sync with nature’s cycles.

7. Conflict between outer beauty and inner coldness

➢ The poem's most striking metaphor is the lover's emotional state
being like "marble ice" and January in her heart, while her eyes
carry the warmth of June. This contrast highlights how someone
may appear emotionally distant or cold, yet their outward beauty
might suggest a different story.
➢ Beauty and youth (June) are often celebrated in society, but
Carew critiques how inner emotional states can remain frozen
 and inaccessible, despite the world around us flourishing. The
lover’s external beauty becomes almost tragic, as it suggests
potential warmth, yet her heart is cold and unresponsive.

8. Cycle of love and disillusionment

➢ Carew uses the cyclical nature of the seasons to reflect the
cycles of love. Spring brings a promise of renewal, but love, like
nature, follows a course that’s not always predictable. The
speaker’s love remains unreciprocated even as the world around
him rejoices in new beginnings. This pattern of renewal and
emotional stagnation illustrates the universal experience of
unrequited love—the disillusionment that sometimes occurs when
reality doesn’t match the hope for change.

9. Nature of desire vs emotional reality

➢ The imagery of "Amyntas and Chloris" sleeping together under a
sycamore tree suggests the idealized form of love—spontaneous,
natural, and harmonious with the world. However, the speaker’s
love does not align with this ideal, as his lover is emotionally
absent, symbolized by the stark contrast between the external
vibrancy of nature and her cold-heartedness.
➢ The speaker’s desire is framed by the external forces of nature,
which are in full bloom, yet his emotional life doesn’t follow the
same rhythm. Love in the shade is suggested, representing a
calmer, quieter form of affection, but it’s clear that the speaker’s
heart remains unfulfilled.

10. Irony of emotional change

➢ Carew’s metaphor of emotional thawing is present in the hope for
revival (like the earth warming after winter), yet the lover remains
emotionally frozen, illustrating a form of irony: the speaker's
expectations of renewal are thwarted by the reality of his lover’s
coldness.
➢ The idea of time keeping with the season reinforces the
inevitable passage of time, suggesting that, like nature,
emotional states evolve, but not always in the direction one
hopes. This passage of time is essential to the development of
love, yet it also illustrates its transience.
11. Emotional incompatibility seasons out of sync
➢ The central tension in the poem lies in the incompatibility of
the speaker’s emotional state with that of the lover’s. While
spring represents rejuvenation, hope, and passionate love,
the speaker's emotional world feels like winter—cold, frozen,
and unyielding. This emotional disconnect presents a
commentary on how unreturned affection can feel like
being stuck in a perpetual winter, no matter the efforts
made to change.
➢ The lover's inner emotional world remains disconnected
from nature’s seasonal rhythm, creating a profound sense
of unfulfilled longing and isolation.

12. Symbolism of times and seasons

➢ une in the lover’s eyes suggests that her beauty is at its
peak, yet her emotional state remains locked in January, a
time of coldness and emotional detachment. This could
symbolize how beauty and youth often mask deeper
emotional stagnation.
➢ The concept of time becomes crucial here; it suggests that,
like the seasons, emotional states are temporary and shift
over time, but not always in ways that are beneficial or
harmonious for the person involved.

13. Hope vs resignation

➢ While there’s an overarching theme of hope in the natural renewal
of spring, there is a distinct resignation in the speaker's emotional
world. This suggests that love may follow patterns of growth and
decline, and that no matter how much one hopes for change, the
emotional landscape is not always under our control.
➢ Carew may be suggesting that emotional thawing takes time and
might never happen on the terms we wish, urging a sense of
patience but also acceptance of emotional realities.
 FORMAT

INTRO

➢ Start with a dramatic statement, something philosophical ,

disturbing, or a rhetorical question that intellectually stimulates
➢ definition
➢ Carew's poem talks about how nature’s changes mirror our
emotions. It looks at how youth doesn’t last, how beauty can hide a
cold heart, and how love can feel different from what we expect.
Using nature as a symbol, the poem highlights feelings of
unreturned love, being alone emotionally, and how time keeps
moving forward. The contrast between the new life of spring and
the cold of winter shows the complicated feelings we have in love
and life.
➢ The poet effectively makes use of linguistic, lexis, poetic devices,
phonetics to create a harsh impact
➢ Leave a line
➢ Body para 1 - one claim support it with evidence , analysis and
techniques [Multiple quotes in one sentence(eg-the poet faces
emotional suffering due to psychological isolation while secluded to
the deathly confines shackles of the dreary dark room]
➢ Body para 2
➢ Bodynpara 3
➢ Conclusion - evokes a sense of awareness about the contrast
between appearances and reality in relationships, and to remind
readers of the inevitability of change and the emotional isolation
that can come with it.